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Seminar 1 - CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION | NEW FACES

Every crisis is connected with a questioning of authorities. The early modern English theatre does not only stage quite a number of crises where an acknowledged authority (e.g. a king or a queen) has to prove whether he or she is still considered to be in a position to stand for the values of the community; it is also the site of a crisis of representation in which the

Seminar 1 - CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION

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Seminar 2 - LABORATORIES OF IDENTITY | NEW FACES

Thematizing the ogies and affinities between the epistemological uncertainties in early modern and postmodern culture, recent critical literature contends that the emergent concept of subjectivity in the late Renaissance is ociated with the idea of individual interiority. The fantasies of corporeality have in their social background an early modern obsession with the

Seminar 2 - LABORATORIES OF IDENTITY

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Seminar 3 - CRISES IN THE MERCHANT OF VENICE AND OTHELLO | NEW FACES

The seminar will focus on the way crisis is represented in The Merchant of Venice and Othello, with special reference to the issue of religious conversion and the verbal aspects of expressing crisis. We will discuss how religious conversion is explored in the plays in relation to the wider religious crises of Shakespeare’s day, including the Protestant Reformation, the

Seminar 3 - CRISES IN THE MERCHANT OF VENICE AND OTHELLO

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Seminar 4 - [UN]SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN EARLY-MODERN LITERARY UTOPIAS | NEW FACES

Thomas More’s Libellus vere aureus (1516), Tommaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun - La Città del Sole (1623) and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1624) are ού/εύ-τόποι. They envision ideal commonwealths that exist within the discursive space traced by European travellers and insular hosts.

Seminar 4 - [UN]SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN EARLY-MODERN LITERARY UTOPIAS

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Seminar 5 - THE CRISIS OF DEATH | NEW FACES

While in early modern Europe the brutal commonness of death and dying was experienced on a daily basis, it is often claimed that, with the development of medicine and technology, mortality has become one of the post-modern taboos. Public executions, admonitory displays of dead bodies or m graves of plague victims seem to be as remote from us as ars moriendi and

Seminar 5 - THE CRISIS OF DEATH

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