UNIVERSITY OF PARMA, AULA MIAZZI (VIALE SAN MICHELE, 9)
28 NOVEMBER 2024
9:00-9:30 CONFERENCE OPENING
9:30-11:00 PANEL 1: STAGING NEO-ROMANTICISM
CHAIR: GIOIA ANGELETTI
PAOLA DEGLI ESPOSTI (UNIVERSITY OF PADUA): A Romantic Bridge between Centuries: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
DIEGO SAGLIA (UNIVERSITY OF PARMA): Interrupting Men: Sarah Siddons and Joanna Baillie in April de Angelis’ The Divine Mrs S
MARIA ELENA CAPITANI (UNIVERSITY OF PARMA): “Just Grass. And Sky. And Me”: Landscapes and Mindscapes in Simon Rae’s Rewriting of John Clare’s Life
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:30 PANEL 2: FRANKENWORLDS
CHAIR: MARIA ELENA CAPITANI
GIOIA ANGELETTI (UNIVERSITY OF PARMA): Frankenstein in Scottish Theatre: Textual and Authorial Boundaries in Liz Lochhead’s and Rona Munro’s Rewrites
FERNANDO CIONI (UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE): Frankenstein on the Contemporary British Stage
MIRKA HOROVÁ (CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE): “An Always-Already Absent Present”: Meta-Romantic Traces in Poor Things 1993/2023
GRAHAM SAUNDERS (UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM): Romanticism in Crisis: the Shelley Circle, Utopianism and Tragic Loss in Howard Brenton’s Bloody Poetry (1984) and Richard Holmes’s Unpublished Shelley Play [online]
13:30-15:00 LUNCH
15:00-17:00 PANEL 3: BYRON/AUSTEN REMEDIATIONS
CHAIR: DIEGO SAGLIA
FRANCA DELLA ROSA (UNIVERSITY OF BARI ALDO MORO): Manfred on Air
SERENA BAIESI (UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA): Jane Austen’s Unfinished Works on the Screen: New Directions and New Dimensions
CARLOTTA FARESE (UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA): “You Really Like Trilling?”: Re-Inventing Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park in Metropolitan by Whit Stilman
ANDREA PEGHINELLI (SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME): The Revenge of the Minors: Being Mr Wickham on the Contemporary Stage
17:00-17:30 COFFEE BREAK
17:30-18:15 MAGGIE ROSE (UNIVERSITY OF MILAN): SHELLEY. A DIET FOR PEACE
CHAIR: GIOIA ANGELETTI