'Theatre and the academics in the Republic of Venice, c. 1540-1600: politics, print and performance' Seminar

Time:: 17:00
Date:: 1 February 2016
Venue:: Building 65/1173 Avenue Campus University of Southampton Faculty of Humanities SO17 1BF

For more information regarding this seminar, please email Chloe McKenzie at c.r.McKenzie@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

Part of the CMRC seminar series 2015-2016

This paper will explore some aspects of theatre in academies across the Veneto region, including Verona, Vicenza and Padua, besides Venice. It will explore how far Venice's subject cities negotiated a distinct socio-political identity through their academies and through theatre practised there. How far were these institutions able to foster local heterodoxy and opposition in light of the drama they produced for print and performance?

Speaker information

Dr Lisa Sampson, University of Reading. Associate Professor and Director of Research for the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies