Gostujoča predavanja na Oddelku za anglistiko

Na Oddelku za anglistiko in amerikanistiko bosta v kratkem gostovala dva tuja predavatelja.

Dr. Riaan Oppelt z Univerze Stellenbosch v Južni Afriki bo izvedel štiri predavanja:

 “Reasons for Re-Reading: Missed Opportunities, Opaque Natures and Decolonising in South African English and Cultural Studies” (četrtek, 12. oktober, od 13.50 do 15.25 v učilnici 309);

“Transatlantic Modernism” (četrtek, 12. oktober, od 15.30 do 17.05 v učilnici 306);

“Introduction to South African Literary Studies” (petek, 13. oktober, od 11.20 do 12.55 v Rimljanki);

 “Nineteenth Century Variations: The Beginnings of Modernism” (ponedeljek, 16. oktober, od 19.40 do 21.00 v predavalnici 18).  

Dr. Andy Murphy (Trinity College Dublin) pa bo 23. oktobra ob 19.40 (predavalnica 18) v okviru projekta Irish Studies Guest Lecture Series 2023 predaval o Shakespearu in Irski. Več informacij o predavanju in predavatelju najdete pod objavo.  

Prijazno vabljeni,

Ana Šporčič

Shakespeare’s Irish Books: Unfolding Ireland’s Folios

2023 marks the 400^th anniversary of the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays – the First Folio. Copies of the volume now sell for anything up to $10,000,000 each and far and away the greatest number of surviving copies are now held by institutions and private individuals in the US. But in the years following the publication of the volume a number of copies of the book made their way across the Irish Sea and into the libraries of some notable Irish collectors. This paper will outline a little of the history of the volume itself and will then turn to the Irish copies and their owners. It will tell the story of how possession of a copy of the First Folio became a mark of advanced culture in the colonial society of eighteenth-century Ireland. 

Andy Murphy is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a fellow of Trinity College Dublin, where he is 1867 Professor of English. He has published extensively in the fields of Shakespeare studies and Irish studies. His authored books include Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (CUP, second edition 2021) and Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism, 1790-1930 (CUP 2018). His edited volume The Nation in British Literature and Culture was published recently by CUP. He is currently editing Henry V for the newest version of the Cambridge Shakespeare and his edited volume Shakespeare in Ireland: Adaptations and Appropriations will be published by Bloomsbury next year.