Seminar No. 1.2.

Title: Shakespeare and the Graeco-Roman World.

Leaders:

Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University, India)
Coppelia Kahn (Brown University, USA)

Participats:

Rita Banerjee (University of Delhi, India)
Silvana Carotenuto (University of Salerno, Italy)
Sarbani Chaudhury (University of Kalyani, India)
Alice Clark (University of Nantes, France)
Naomi Conn Liebler (Montclair State College)
Christy Desmet (University of Georgia)
Roberto Ferreira da Rocha (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Robin Headlam Wells (University of Surrey, Roehampton)
Christine Hutchins (East Carolina University)
Ann Kaegi (University of Hull)
Paulina Kewes (University of Wales)
Arthur Little (University of California at Los Angeles)
Katharine Maus (University of Virginia)
Hoshang Merchant (University of Hyderabad, India)
Robert S. Miola (Loyola College, Maryland)

Abstract:

Shakespeare's construction of the Graeco-Roman world refracts in diverse ways humanistic ideas of antiquity ideas
driven in part by humanism's political agendas. Interpreting Shakespeare's appropriations of the classics is no longer a
matter of tracing sources but of charting various ideological investments in the classics, and in Shakespeare as a ‘classic’.
The Graeco-Roman plays and poems have themselves helped constitute modern notions of the classical, and have
entered into nationalist, colonial, and post-colonial political discourses.We will engage both with Shakespearian representations of classical antiquity and with later treatments of them in translations and in poetry, narrative, theatre,
film and video, in the context of multicultural reception and reappropriation.

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