Scientific Committee

Mariacristina Cavecchi Giuliana Iannaccaro Donatella Pallotti Alessandra Petrina Laura Tosi

Organising Committee

Ilaria Natali ilaria.natali@unifi.it

IASEMS Executive Board With the assistance of Sofia Novello

Websites

www.maldura.unipd.it/iasems

www.britishinstitute.it

Prophecy and Conspiracy in Early Modern England

WITH THE SUPPORT OF CON IL PATROCINIO DI

SHAKESPEARE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 2016

THE IASEMS GRADUATE CONFERENCE AT THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF FLORENCE

22 April 2015 Sala Ferragamo, The Harold Acton Library

Lungarno Guicciardini 9 – Firenze

 

SHAKESPEARE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 2016

9.15  OPENING REMARKS    Alessandra Petrina President of the Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies Julia Race Director of The British Institute of Florence

9.30 Massimiliano Morini Università di Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’ ‘Out on thee, seeming!’ Appearances and Conspiracies in Much Ado About Nothing MORNING SESSION (CHAIR: MASSIMILIANO MORINI)

10.30

Sonja Kleij Queen’s University Belfast Dutch and English Dramatisations of Conspiracy 11.00 Kathleen M. Bradley Nottingham Trent University Staging Comic Conspiracy in Productions of Arden of Faversham

11.30 Michela Compagnoni Università degli Studi di Bergamo Temporal Knots in the Weird Sisters’ Prophecies: The Conspiracy against Time in Shakespeare’s Macbeth 12.00 Nizar Zouidi University of Manouba, Tunisia The Interpretation of Prophecy and the Conspiring Spirit in Macbeth 12.30 Carmen Gallo Università di Napoli – L’Orientale All is True: Figures of Prophecy and Conspiracy in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII 13.00 LUNCH BREAK

14.30 Giuliana Iannaccaro Università degli Studi di Milano Prophecy in Early Modern England: Opening Remarks

AFTERNOON SESSION (CHAIR: GIULIANA IANNACCARO)

15.00 Emily Jennings Merton College, Oxford ‘Balaam’s Asse’: Prophecy and Conspiracy in Mid-Jacobean England 15.30 Melissa Pullara Carleton University, Ottawa Oedipus in Arcadia: Implications of Inversion in Self-Fulfilling Prophecies 16.00 TEA BREAK 17.00 Martina Zamparo Università degli Studi di Udine ‘Great Apollo, Turn all to the best!’: An Alchemical Journey through Conspiracy, Prophecy and Holiness in The Winter’s Tale 17.30 Catherine Evans University of Sheffield ‘Now, this Bell tolling softly for another, saies to me, Thou must die’: John Donne’s Prophetic Bells

18.00 ROUND-UP