Day 1 Monday 1 July

10.00 – 10.30: Welcome to Verona and the summer school:

Prof Alessandra Tomaselli, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures –

University of Verona;

Prof Matteo de Beni, Head of the Teaching Board of Foreign Languages and Literatures–

Department of Foreign Languages – University of Verona.

Dr Victoria Bladen, Prof Chiara Battisti, Prof Sidia Fiorato

10.30 – 11.30: Introduction to Shakespeare – Prof Chiara Battisti and Prof Sidia Fiorato

11.30 – 12.00: Will Power – why we study Shakespeare – Dr Victoria Bladen

12.00 – 12.30: Renaissance cities and Shakespeare - Maddison Kennedy (graduate, University

of Queensland)

12.30 – 1.30: Lunch break

1.30 – 2.00: Introduction to Romeo and Juliet – Dr Victoria Bladen

2.00 – 3.15: Playreading: Romeo and Juliet

3.15 – 3.30: break

3.30 - 5.00: Playreading: Romeo and Juliet continued.

 

Day 2 Tuesday 2 July

Shakespeare and Popular Culture

10.00 – 10.30: Shakespeare and Comics– Prof Chiara Battisti

10.30 – 11.00: Shakespeare and Popular Culture – Prof Sidia Fiorato

11.00 – 12.30: Playreading: Romeo and Juliet

12.30 – 1.30: Lunch break

Shakespeare and Gender

1.30 –2.00 Masculine Adornment: The Androgyne and Gender Unease in The Two Gentlemen of

Verona and Romeo & Juliet – Matthew Huxley (Hons student, University of Queensland)

Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

2.00 – 2.30: Shakespeare and Cervantes: on the presence of the Spanish romances of chivalry in