Shakespeare and performance

English teachers at secondary I and secondary II-levels

How can a focus on theatrical performance change our understanding of the historical conditions and social value of Shakespeare’s art?

This course will answer this question along five axes: public life, adaptation, text, space, and books. Shakespearean performance will be re-presented not just as a medium for delivering a script, but also as a source of collective ethical experience (public life), a vehicle for ongoing cultural dialogue (adaptation), an expression and shaper of words printed on a page (text), a way to reflect critically on interpersonal relations in material environments (space), and a force that energizes readerly experience, both in Shakespeare’s time and our own (books).

• To introduce through the topic of performance a wide range of historical, critical, and philosophical contexts that are important for understanding Shakespeare
• To instill a conceptually dynamic and polyvalent sense of how “performance” in Shakespearean contexts has historical, material, and ethical dimensions
• To inspire new approaches to teaching Shakespeare and inventive ways of integrating performance into the classroom
• To reinforce a shared sense of mission among teachers at all levels; a commitment to Shakespearean performance, and to theater more broadly, as a unique forum for ethical, social, intellectual, and political development for our students

A certificate of participation will be delivered at the end of the course.

MORNING LECTURES
(09:00 to 12:00)

• Welcome
  Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère and Marie Emilie Walz
• Performance and Public Life
  Prof. Kevin Curran
• Performance and Adaptation
  Prof. Emma Depledge
• Performance and Text
  Prof. Lukas Erne

AFTERNOON LECTURES AND PERFORMANCE
(13:30 to 17:00)

• Performance and Space
  Prof. Isabel Karremann
• Performance and Books
  Dr Devani Singh
• L’Atelier Shakespeare presents Shakeswho?
  Dr Vincent Laughery
• Closing words and book display
  Matthew Wake

• English Department, Faculté des lettres, Université de Lausanne (UNIL)

Training team

• Prof. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, English and Comparative Literature, English department, UNIL
• Dr. Boris Vejdovsky, American Literature and Culture, English department, UNIL
• Dr. Marie Emilie Walz, English and Comparative Literature, English department, UNIL

Teachers

• Prof. Kevin Curran, Early Modern English Literature, English department, UNIL
• Prof. Emma Depledge, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern Literature, University of Neuchâtel (UNINE)
• Prof. Lukas Erne, Modern English Literature, University of Geneva (UNIGE)
• Prof. Isabel Karremann, Early Modern Literatures in English, University of Zurich (UZH)
• Dr Vincent Laughery, Independent artist
• Dr Devani Singh, Modern English Literature, University of Geneva (UNIGE)
• Matthew Wake, Librarian and owner of Books Books Books

Date and schedule

Friday September 13, 2024, 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.

Course venue

UNIL-EPFL Campus, Lausanne

Registration

Course fee :

CHF 250.– *

* based on the price of the last edition

Registration deadline:

Registration Closed

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