PERFORMING ROMANTICISM: STAGE AND SCREEN RE-INVENTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN

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in Crisis: the Shelley Circle, Utopianism and Tragic Loss in Howard Brenton’s Bloody Poetry (1984) and Richard Holmes’s Unpublished Shelley Play [online]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

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