Seminar No. 4.3.

Title: Shakespeare and the Mediterranean: The "Non-European" Edge.

Leaders:

Emily Bartels (Rutgers University, USA)
Bulent Bozkurt (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Participants:

Randall Martin (University of New Brunswick)
Shankar Raman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alan Rosen (Bar-Ilan University)
Jyotsna G. Singh (Michigan State University)
 

Abstract:

This seminar will explore Shakespeare's representation of the non-European worlds (of Africa and the East) that define
and shape a Mediterranean culture. We will question how the Mediterranean is bounded as an economic, political,
ideological, cultural, and dramatic space and will consider how its networks complicate the differentiation between the
non-European and the European as well as between various sectors of the non-European. We will also examine the ways
that Shakespeare defines and positions England in relation to these worlds. Papers may focus on any particular region or
move, more broadly or theoretically, across relevant terrains.