CERVANTES & SHAKESPEARE: 400 YEARS
AN ANGLO-SPANISH SYMPOSIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
TO COMMEMORATE THEIR DEATHS IN 1616
Thursday 28th to Friday 29th January 2016
Weston Library & Exeter College
All papers will be delivered in English
The event is free and open to all but please register here:
<sandra.beaumont@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk>
Organized by:
Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Oxford; Office for Cultural and Scientific
Affairs, Embassy of Spain; Instituto Cervantes London
CERVANTES AND SHAKESPEARE: 400 YEARS
AN ANGLO-SPANISH SYMPOSIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
28th - 29th January 2016
Cervantes and Shakespeare, who died within eleven days of each other in 1616,
are universally regarded as the supreme exemplars of literary achievement in their
respective languages. This symposium brings together six British scholars of
Cervantes and six Spanish Shakespeare scholars to explore the literary worlds of
these two iconic authors, whose works convey the turbulent spirit of the restless
age in which they lived.
Speakers will cover a broad range of topics, such as the ‘lost’ play by Shakespeare,
inspired by a story from Cervantes’s Don Quixote; the extraordinary influence of
Don Quixote; similarities and differences in form, style, and theme in their works;
issues of interpretation; and the enduring fascination both writers have exerted on
readers, writers and artists in modern times. All papers will be delivered in
English, and there will be plenty of scope for discussion by speakers and
audience.
Speakers:
Michael Bell (Warwick)
Clara Calvo (Murcia)
Trevor Dadson (Queen Mary, London)
José Ramón Díaz-Fernández (Málaga)
Barry Ife (Kings College London)
Zenón Luis-Martínez (Huelva)
Jeremy Robbins (Edinburgh)
Salvador Oliva (Gerona)
Isabel Torres (Queen's, Belfast)
Ángel-Luis Pujante (Murcia)
Edwin Williamson (Oxford)
Jesús Tronch (Valencia)
Keynote speaker:
Brean Hammond (Nottingham)
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 28th January 2016
WESTON LIBRARY - Inaugural Session
9.30 Opening Remarks
H.E. Federico Trillo-Figueroa, Ambassador of Spain; The Vice-Chancellor of the University
of Oxford
10.00 - 11.15
Keynote lecture
Brean Hammond (Professor of English Literature, University of Nottingham):
Cervantes's Bones: Or What We Can Learn From Shakespeare's ‘Lost Play’
First session
11.40 - 12.20: Ángel-Luis Pujante: The Link Cervantes-Shakespeare: Some Spanish
Observations
12.20 - 13.00: Edwin Williamson: The Influence and Power of ‘Don Quixote‘
EXETER COLLEGE
Second session
14-30 - 15.10
Trevor J. Dadson: The Multicultural World of Don Quixote
15.10 - 15.50
Michael Bell: The ‘Exploded Psyche’ in Cervantes, Shakespeare and Dickens
Third session
16.10 – 16.50 Zenón Luis-Martínez: ‘Limbs are his Instruments’: The Logic of Division in
‘Troilus and Cressida‘
16. 50 – 17.30
17.30 – 18.45
Salvador Oliva: The Problem of Evil in Studies of ‘Macbeth‘
RECEPTION– EXETER COLLEGE (for audience and speakers)
Friday, 29th January 2016.
EXETER COLLEGE
Fourth session
9.30 – 10.10: Jesús Tronch: Imagined Manuscripts in Shakespeare and Cervantes: Behind
the Editorial Practice of their Plays
10.10 – 10.50: Barry Ife: Plays, Texts and the Novel as Drama
Fifth session
11.05 – 11.45: Isabel Torres: Poet Come Lately? The Poetics and Politics of Irony in
Cervantes’s ‘Viaje del Parnaso‘
11.45 – 12.25: Jeremy Robbins: Journeys and Destinations in Cervantes’s ‘Persiles y
Sigismunda‘
Sixth session
15.30 – 16.10: José Ramón Díaz Fernández: Authority, Power and Social Order in Grigori
Kozintsev’s Shakespearean Adaptations
16.10 – 16.50:
Clara Calvo: Curating Shakespeare
Concluding session
17.00 - 17.30:
General discussion and summing-up
Closing Remarks: Ilmo. Sr. D. J.M. Lasalle, Spanish Secretary of State for Culture;
Professor Sir Rick Trainor, Rector of Exeter College.
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The event is free and open to all but please register here:
<sandra.beaumont@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk>
Weston Library
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