Translating Greek Tragedy
in Sixteenth-Century Europe​
Friday 14th December 2018
Supported by: Sorbonne Paris Nord, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Plenary led by Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow)
17h30 - 18h30
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​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)