Manfred Pfister

                     Shakespeare Intermedial: Romeo and Juliet and The Sonnets

                          Workshop at the Department of Theatre Studies,
                        Masaryk University Brno, 15-26 Oct. 2012, room G 03


                                             Programm


Tuesday, 16.10. (14.10-15.45)

Love Sonnet and Love Tragedy                                                      Types of
intermediality                                                                           Close
Reading: R&J, I,iv ( ballroom scene)


Wednesday, 17.10. (14.10-15.45)

The Visual Arts in the Sonnets – the Sonnets in Visual Art          Book covers, illustrations,
visualizations                                             Close Reading: Sonnet 24


Thursday, 18.10. (14.10-15.45)

Musical and other (re-)settings: Route 66
  Musical settings and performances                                                      Close
Reading: Sonnet 66


Friday, 19.10. (9.10-10.45)

The Sonnets Performed: Stage – Screen – Net                           Recitals, citations,
performances                                                        Close Reading: Sonnets 2, 18,
20, 29, 53, 116, 127, 130


Monday, 22.10. (9.10-10.45)

Introducing Romeo and Juliet  and its Intermedial History       Floating between genres and media


Tuesday, 23.10. (14.10-15.45)

‘Two households’: theatre, cinema, symphonic music          Language, space, movement, sound, music
in the various media     Close Reading: R&J, I,i (opening scene)


Wednesday, 24.10. (14.10-15.45)

Grande Passion and Tragic
Closure                                                                               Theatre,
film, opera, musical, ballet                                                     Close Reading:
R&J, V,iii (final
scene)


Thursday, 25.10. (14.10-15.45)

Kissing by the Book                                                                            The
languages of poetic drama between visuality and musicality       Close Reading: R&J, II,I (balcony
scene) and III,ii,1-35 (epithalamium)


Friday, 26.10. (9.1010-45)

Romeo and Juliet: A Picture Gallery                                                   The play in
the history of painting, visual-verbal interactions         Summing Up



Additional Public Lecture (Monday, 22. Oct., 17.00):

Music to Hear… from Shakespeare to Stravinsky