Professional Development Seminar: “Not Only Musical in Himself…”
Presented by the UQ Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800).
Date: Monday, June 13, 2016
Time: 4:30pm, with afternoon tea from 4:00pm
Venue: Room 275, Global Change Institute (Building 20), University of Queensland, St Lucia
Cost: Free event but RSVP essential, uqche@uq.edu.au
Keynote speaker: Professor Tom Bishop (University of Auckland)
Shakespeare used music extensively and expertly to enrich the texture and resonance of his plays. But his work also served as a prompt to later musicians and writers interested in music, not only in the great tradition of Shakespearean operas, but, even more intriguingly, as an impetus for other original developments and departures. In this talk, we will begin with Shakespeare’s own practice, but then explore some of these subsequent responses in the work of later composers such as Haydn, Berlioz, Mendelssohn and poets such as Tennyson and Auden.
This seminar is open to all, and will count towards Continuing Professional Development targets for secondary school teachers of English, Music, and Drama.
Tom Bishop is Professor of English at the University of Auckland, where he teaches literature and drama. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder (Cambridge University Press, 1996); the translator of Ovid’s Amores (Carcanet, 2003); and a general editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook (Ashgate Press). He is currently working on a book entitled Shakespeare’s Theatre Games.
