Seminar No. 1.8.

Title: A Boundless Sea: Shakespeare’s Mediterranean on Film.

Leaders:

José Ramón Díaz-Fernández (University of Malaga, Spain)
Peter Donaldson (Massuachusetts Institute of Technology, USA )

Participants:

Iska Alter (Hofstra University/ University of Hong Kong)
Ann Jennalie Cook (Vanderbilt University)
Herbert R. Coursen (University of Maine)
Samuel Crowl (Ohio University)
Anthony Davies (Independent Scholar)
Kathy Howlett (Northeastern University)
Hyon-U Lee (Soonchunhyang University)
Patricia Lennox (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Alfredo Michel Modenessi (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Yukiko Mori (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Martha P. Nochimson (Mercy College)
Sharon O'Dair (University of Alabama)
Daryl Palmer (University of Akron)
Kenneth S. Rothwell (University of Vermont)
Hanna Scolnicov (Tel-Aviv University)
Kay H. Smith (Appalachian State University)
Gulsen Teker (Dogus University)
Bob White (University of Western Australia)
Robert F. Willson, Jr. (University of Missouri, Kansas City)

Abstract:

From The Comedy of Errors to The Tempest the Mediterranean has figured prominently in Shakespeare's works.
The present seminar welcomes papers dealing with representations of the Mediterranean world in Shakespeare film
adaptations and derivatives. Papers should not be restricted to the plays specifically set in the Mediterranean.Among
other possible topics, papers may also explore the development of national film traditions in the area (the Italian
Shakespeare films or the Turkish Hamlet: The Angel of Vengeance are just a few examples) and the works of
filmmakers closely associated with the Mediterranean such as Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight and Zeffirelli's
Hamlet.