Translating Greek Tragedy
in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Friday 14th December 2018
Supported by: Sorbonne Paris Nord, Université Grenoble Alpes, the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford), and University of Oxford, St Hilda's College, Université de la Réunion, and DIRE
Organised by: Tristan Alonge (La Réunion), Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford), Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13)
Registration and Coffee 10h30 - 11h00
Welcome from Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) and the organizers
Panel 1 - Southern Europe I
Chair - Sarah Knight (Leicester)
11h00 - 12h00
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Elia Borza (Université Catholique de Louvain) Neo-Latin Sophocles; an Overview of the Neo-Latin Translations of Sophocles in Renaissance Europe
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Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford) Theatre Translation and Aeschylus in Early Modern Italy: three case studies
12h00 - 12h15 Coffee break
Panel 2 - Southern Europe II
Chair - Blair Hoxby (Stanford)
12h15 - 13h15
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Speaker 1 - Claudia Cuzzotti (Indipendent) The Hecuba by Michelangelo the Younger (1568-1647): translation and adaptation of Greek tragedy in the Italian Renaissance
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Speaker 2 - Luísa Resende (Lisboa) Sophocles in sixteenth-century Portugal. Aires Vitória’s Tragédia del Rei Agaménom
13h15 - 14h30 Lunch
Panel 3 - Northern Europe I
Chair - Blair Hoxby (Stanford)
14h30 - 15h50
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Speaker 1 - Malika Bastin-Hammou (Université Grenoble Alpes) Translating Greek (para)tragedy in the Renaissance
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Speaker 2 - Thomas Baier (Würzburg) Camerarius on Greek Tragedy
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Speaker 3 - Angelica Vedelago (Padua) Thomas Watson’s Antigone: the didacticism of Neo-Latin academic drama
15h50 - 16h10 Coffee break
Panel 4 - Northern Europe II
Chair - Tiphaine Karsenti (Paris X)
16h10 - 17h30
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Speaker 1 - Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13) Translating and Play-writing: Robert Garnier’s patchwork technique
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Speaker 2 - Tristan Alonge (Université de la Réunion) Praising the King, Raising the Dauphin: an unknown sixteenth-century French translation from Euripides recovered
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Speaker 3 - Tanya Pollard (CUNY) – Translating and Transgendering Greek Heroines in Early Modern England
Plenary led by Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow)
17h30 - 18h30
18h30 - 19h45 Drinks Reception (Senior Common Room)
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Book launch of Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century, eds. Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward (OUP 2018)