Accents on the Shakespearean Stage

23 October 2019

Lukas Erne

Prof. Erne Lukas, UNIGE

Dr Oliver Morgan, UNIGE

Prof. Sonia Massai, King's College, London

This workshop will focus on the topic of 'Accents on the Shakespearean Stage'. The invited guest, Prof. Sonia Massai (King's College London), is an expert on this topic, with a monograph of hers being scheduled to appear with Cambridge UP in early 2020. The event will consist of a one-hour lecture by Prof. Massai, followed by a lengthy question time, in the course of which the PhD students will be asked to engage with issues addressed during the lecture (2 hours); and an interactive workshop, led by Prof. Massai. The lecture will consider what is a stake in the use of normative and non-normative accents on the Shakespearean stage from a historical perspective, from the early modern period to date, while the workshop will explore a variety of considerations relating to accents in contemporary performances of Shakespeare.

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