Name: Creative Musical Performance – A Planet of Sound and Fury: Shakespeare Rewilded
Start: 2026-07-26T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-26T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Conservatorio Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco

July 2026
Registration – Help Desk

July 20 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Welcome Reception

July 20 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Palazzo Verità Poeta Vicolo San Silvestro, 6, Verona, Italy

REC: Reception
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 20 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Palazzo Verità Poeta Vicolo San Silvestro, 6, Verona, Italy

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe

"Tempest Toss'd" - La Ribalta (Italy) and Theatre 63 (UK)
Registration – Help Desk

July 21 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Exhibits

July 21 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
K01: Macbeth visits Manipur: Merging of Politics and Indigenous Performance Traditions in Manipuri Shakespeare

July 21 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 pm

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

K: Keynote

Shormishtha Panja
B01: Skenè Series and the Shakespeare Festival at the Roman Theatre

July 21 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Museum of Natural History Lungadige Porta Vittoria, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch

Silvia Bigliazzi, Sidia Fiorato, Cristiano Ragni, Emanuel Stelzer, and Gianpaolo Savorelli
C01: Shows and Q&A

July 21 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Società letteraria Piazzetta Scalette Rubiani,1, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors

John Blondell
P01: Asian Shakespeares

July 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-A Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Yeahrim Han, Yilin Chen, and Yi-Hsin Hsu
P02: Comedians Sans Frontieres: Theatre beyond Borders in Early Modern Europe

July 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-B Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Laurie Johnson and Elizabeth E. Tavares
P03: Shakespeare and “Asiatic” Style

July 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-C Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Robert Stagg and Goran Stanivukovic
P04: Ecophilia and Ecophobia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet from the Global South

July 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-D Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Murat Öğütcü and Amrita Sen
B06: Greg Doran’s “Walking Shadow”. Interview with the Author

July 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch

Greg Doran and Paul Edmondson
S08: The End(s) of Global Shakespeare

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-11 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Alexa Alice Joubin and Dennis Kennedy
S07: Dramaturgies of Disruption: Shakespeare in the Age of Algorithmic Alienation

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-10 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Tai-Won Kim, Lingui Yang, Huimin Wuang, and Roberta Zanoni
S06: Crisis and Resilience in the Roman Plays

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-08 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Pascale Aebischer, Lubaaba Al-Azami, Curtney Lehmann, and Hassana Moosa
S05: Contemporary Shakespeare Fiction

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-09 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Koel Chatterjee and Kinga Földváry
S04: Caliban and the (Inter-)Planetary: the In, the Out and the Beyond

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-03 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Michela Compagnoni and Anna Kaowalcze-Pawlik
S02: “Antony and Cleopatra” as Cosmos

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-02 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Eric S. Mallin, Palomita Chakravarti, and W. Reginald Rampone Jr.
S01: Anthropocene Shakespeare: Research, Practice, Transformations

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-01 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Sophie Chiari and Randall Martin
W01: The Distributed Performance of ‘Character’ in “Antony and Cleopatra”

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-07 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

W: Workshop

David Schalkwyk and Elena Pellone
S29: Sport on Stage: Playing across Difference

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Società letteraria Piazzetta Scalette Rubiani,1, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Jade Standing and Jonathan Koch
O3: “Отело”

July 21 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Teatro Scientifico-Teatro Laboratorio

O: Open Sessions

An Adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello - Threepenny Company (Serbia)
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 21 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Teatro Santissima Trinità Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe

"Coriolanus" - National Theatre of Bitola (North Macedonia)
O3: Antony and Cleopatra

July 22 @ 6:00 am - 7:00 pm

Teatro Scientifico-Teatro Laboratorio

O: Open Sessions

Production: V.enice S.hakespeare C.ompany (Italy) Elena Pellone: AD, V.enice S.hakespeare C.ompany – artistic director: Elena Pellone Sarah Sayeed: sound designer/actor Philippe Berthome: lighting designer/set designer David Schalkwyk: dramaturg With: Andrew French, Michel …

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Registration – Help Desk

July 22 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Exhibits

July 22 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
L01: Expending Spirit: Energy and Waste

July 22 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 am

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

L: Plenary Roundtable

Dympna Callaghan, Todd Andrew Borlik, Karen Raber, Chloe Preedy, Sophie Chiari, Charlotte Scott
C02: Shows Q&A

July 22 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Società letteraria Piazzetta Scalette Rubiani,1, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors

John Blondell
B02: “Macbettu” (Alessandro Serra’s film)

July 22 @ 11:15 am - 12:45 pm

Polo Zanotto | T1 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch
P05: Fostering Critical Hope: Creative Engagements with Shakespeare in Times of Environmental and Political Crisis

July 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-A Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Gretchen Minton, Kirsten Sandrock, and Sandy Young
P06: Grounding Shakespeare, Responding to Ecological Crisis: Land, Soil, and the Inappropriable

July 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-B Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Randall Martin, Daniel Viktus, and Carolyn Sale
B15: Teaching in a Digital World (Sponsored by the Cambridge Shakespeare Digital Platform)

July 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-D Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

Pascale Aebischer, Dennis Britton, Harry R. McCarthy, Jonathan P. Lamb, and Amy Lidster
05 – Incubating New Classics: Shakespeare and Chinese Literature in Cross-Media Performance. Fusion Theatre Practices in the Digital Age

July 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-01 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

With Baoyi Bi and Wenxuan He
P08: Painted with Unnumber’d Sparks: Sign Language Translation Ideologies for Shakespeare’s Works

July 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-D Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Peter Novak, Janet Guest, Katherine Williams, Andrew Morrill
B07: AIRS and AIRSR (Shakespeare Reprints)

July 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch

Michele Marrapodi
S03: Blue Shakespeares

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-01 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Steve Mentz, Shaul Bassi, and Dyani Johns Taff
S11: Lunar Intersections

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-09 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Wiliam C. Carroll and Pascale C. Drouet
S12: “More … than fancy’s images”: Shakespearean Characters in Their Context

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-10 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Sandra Pietrini, Svenn-Arve Myklebost, and Rachele S. Bassan
S09: Geopolitical Dynamics in Shakespeare Adaptations: Perspectives on the New Cold War

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-02 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Dong-ha Seo, Hisao Oshima, and Ananya Dutta Gupta
S10: International Shakespeares: Soft Power and National Cultural Identities

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-03 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Helen A. Hopkins and L. Monique Pittman
S15: Perfect Bodies, Perfect Worlds: Proto-Eugenics and Fantasies of the Human in Early Modern Utopias

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-11 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Lindsey Row-Heyveld and Hanh Bui
S17: Planetary Plenitude: Nature and Multiplicity in Shakespeare

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-08 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Rocco Coronato and Huw Griffiths
W02: Found in Translation: Elevating the Global Accessibility of Shakespeare in Research and Practice

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-07 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

W: Workshop

Lue Douthit, Jonathan Hope, Cj Ochoco, and Ben Spiller
B11: “Nothing from Nothing” (David Swartz’ film)

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch

A film adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 22 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Teatro Santissima Trinità Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe

"Perikles f'Nofs Bahar" (Pericles in the Middle Sea) - WhatsTheirNames Theatre (Malta)
O4: “Antony and Cleopatra”

July 22 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Teatro Scientifico-Teatro Laboratorio

Co-production between Malachite Theatre (UK) and the V.enice S.hakespeare C.ompany (Italy)
Madrigal Music Concert – William Shakespeare and the Dramaturgical Power of Music

July 22 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Santissima Trinità Church Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

SH: Show

Ludus Orionis (Italy)
Registration – Help Desk

July 23 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Exhibits

July 23 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
K02: Oceanic Fathers: “Othello” and the Work of Voice

July 23 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 am

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

K: Keynote

Jason Allen-Paisant
B03: “New Variorum” Shakespeare

July 23 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Museum of Natural History Lungadige Porta Vittoria, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch

Robert Stagg
C04: Shows Q&A

July 23 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Società letteraria Piazzetta Scalette Rubiani,1, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors

John Blondell
C03: Alessandro Serra’s Shakespeares. Interview with the Director

July 23 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Polo Zanotto | T1 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors

Alessandro Serra, Rosy Colombo and Emanuel Stelzer
B08: “Arden’s Shakespeare and Adaptation Series”

July 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch

Mark Thornton Burnett and Mark Dudgeon
P12: Shakespeare and Artificial Intelligence

July 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-D Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Gabriel Egan, Anja Muller-Wood, and Heejin Kim
P11: Rescripting Shakespearean Worlds Through the New York Shakespeare Festival

July 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-C Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Vanessa I. Corredera, Louise Geddes, and Stephen Purcell
P10: Reconstructing Shakespeare’s Globe around the Planet

July 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-B Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Miles Gregory, Alex Baines, and Angus Vail
P09: Planet Kott: Opening up the Archives of the 20th-Century Shakespeare Critic

July 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-A Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Ton Hoenselaars, Anna Cetera-Włodiarczyk, Zonltán Márkus, and Nicoleta Cinpoeş
B12: “Early Theatre”: A Roundtable

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch

Melinda Gough and Erin Kelly
W03: Shakespeare and Early Modern Theatre Wikipedia Editing Workshop

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-07 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

W: Workshop

Kitamura Sae
S34: Without Words: Dance Adaptations of Shakespeare

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-10 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Lynsey McCullough and Emily Wine Rock
S31: Theorizing Global Shakespearemes

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-11 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

David Nee and Jason Eng Hun Lee
S21: Shakespeare and the Musical Planet

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-09 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Alina Bottez, Michelle Assay, and David Fanning
S20: Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic Planet

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-03 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

John Stone and Deanne Williams
S16: The Planetary and the Sacred in Asian Shakespeares

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-02 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Yoneg Li Lan and Yeeyon Im
S14: New Worlds of Words: Shakespeare’s Language, Near and Far

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-08 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Emily Louisa Smith and Carla Mazzio
S13: The Natures of Shakespeare, Ecological Shakespeare or Environmental Shakespeare

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-01 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Melissa Croteau, Stephen O'Neill, and Victoria Bladen
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 23 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Teatro Santissima Trinità Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe

"Romeo and Juliet" - National Academic Theatre of Armenia
Creative Musical Performance – A Planet of Sound and Fury: Shakespeare Rewilded

July 23 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Conservatorio Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco Via Abramo Massalongo, 2, Verona, Italy

SH: Show

Alys Daroy and Conservatorio "Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco", Verona
O2: Отело

July 23 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Teatro Scientifico-Teatro Laboratorio

Petra Bjelica, Ana Pinter, Marta Bjelica, Igor Benčina - Threepenny Company (Serbia)
Registration – Help Desk

July 24 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Exhibits

July 24 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
L02: From Fair Verona to the Great Globe Itself: “Romeo and Juliet” and the Reformation of Cultural Traditions

July 24 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 am

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

L: Plenary Roundtable

Mark Bayer, Carla Della Gatta, Mark Thorntorn Burnett, Taarini Mookherjee, Jyotsna Singh, Yukari Yoshihara
B04: “New Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series”

July 24 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Museum of Natural History Lungadige Porta Vittoria, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch

Peter Holland, Zachary Lesser, Tiffany Stern, Ayanna Thompson, Andrew Hartley
C05: Shows Q&A

July 24 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Società letteraria Piazzetta Scalette Rubiani,1, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors

John Blondell
B14: Shakespeare After Democracy? Shakespeare in the Age of New Authoritarianism

July 24 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Polo Zanotto | T1 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch

Marcela Kostihova
B09: Meet the Editors: Publishing with Shakespeare Quarterly

July 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch

Vanessa I. Corredera, David McInnis, and Arthur L. Little
P16: Shakespearia: A Comparison Between Teenagers

July 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-D Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Kamil Tukaev, Jonathan Salway, and Solimano Pontarollo
P15: Shakespeare’s Sonic World: Sound Studies and Early Modern Theatre

July 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-C Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Chair: Maddalena Pennacchia Antonio Arnieri, Lara Ehrenfried, Alexandra Siso
P13: Shakespeare and Eco-Romance

July 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-A Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Elizabeth Freestone and Christina Wald
P14: Shakespeare’s Planetary Roots and Routes: African Oral Literature as a Re*source of Shakespeare’s Trans*Textuality

July 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-B Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Susan Arndt, Ife Aboluwade, and Michael Steppat
B13: SENSible Games: Shakespeare’s Narrative Sources and Gamification

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch

Maristella Gatto and Beatrice Righetti
W04: Shakespeare in Veneto: Unveiling Historical Heritage and Culture Acting Shakespeare Works

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-07 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

W: Workshop

Ornella Naccari
S32: “There is no world without Verona walls”: Exile in Shakespeare, Now and Then

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-03 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

James M. Sutton, Stephanie E. Chamberlain, and Jane Kingsley-Smith
S30: Storms, Tides, Floods: Shakespeare and the Power of Climate

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-11 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Susanne Wofford and Christian Billing
S27: Shakespeare’s Tragedies and their Twenty-First-Century Reverberations

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-10 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Gemma Kate Allred, Benjamin Broadribb, and Edel Semple
S26: Shakespeare’s Sonic Galaxies and Constellations of Emotional Response

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-09 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Jennifer Linhart Wood and Maddalena Pennacchia
S24: Shakespeare in the Global Musical Opera: From Stage to Sound

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-02 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Elena Biggi Parodi, Adriana De Feo, Elena Abbado
S23: Shakespeare in the Cloud(s)

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-08 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Maria Elisa Montironi and Reto Winckler
S19: The Rhetoric of Ecology and Racial Difference on Page and in Performance

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-01 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Nora Galland and Anita Raychawdhuri
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 24 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Teatro Santissima Trinità Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe

"Shakespeare in Song" - Daniel Zappi (Italy, UK, and Czechia)
“Arden 4” Bloomsbury Reception

July 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Santissima Trinità Cloister Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

REC: Reception
“Caesar’s Maze: An Infinite Loop”

July 24 @ 9:00 pm - 11:30 pm

Roman Theatre Rigaste Redentore, 2, Verona, Italy

SH: Show

Contemporary Legend Theatre (Taiwan)
Registration – Help Desk

July 25 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Exhibits

July 25 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
K03: Stellar Shakespeare

July 25 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 am

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

K: Keynote

Piero Boitani
B05: Exploring Shakespeare’s Worldview: Seeing the Plays through Elizabethan Eyes

July 25 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Teatro Scientifico-Teatro Laboratorio

B: Book Launch

Josh Lubarr and Rebecca Goodheart
C07: “Caesar’s Maze: An Infinite Loop”: Interview with Wu Hsing-kuo

July 25 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors

John Blondell, Bi-qi Beatrice Lee, and Wu Hsing-kuo
Shows Q&A

July 25 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Società letteraria Piazzetta Scalette Rubiani,1, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors

John Blondell
O1: AI for Shakespearean Research

July 25 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Polo Zanotto | T1 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

O: Open Sessions

Gabriel Egan and Heejin Kim
P20: Revisiting the Galaxies of (Post-)Soviet Shakespeare

July 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-D Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Aleksei Semenenko, Michelle Assay, and Natalia Khomenko
P19: A Translational Approach to Shakespeare’s Transnational Sources

July 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-C Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Laetitia Sansonetti, Alessandra Petrina, and Iolanda Plescia
P18: “To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores”: Shakespeare, Language and Learning in Oceania

July 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-B Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Joanna Erskine, Kyle Morrison, Florence Boulard, and Claire Hansen
P17: Thinking Like a Planet – Shakespeare’s New/Old Ecologies

July 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-A Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel

Joseph Campana, Jessica Rosenberg, and Laurie Shannon
W05: Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation in Action

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-07 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

W: Workshop

Alys Daroy, Joshua Zeunert, and Myriam Di Maio
S35: World, Fate, Time, and Space in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-11 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Avraham Oz, Camilla Caporicci, and Jyotsna G. Singh
S33: “Vindicta mihi!” The Performance of Revenge from Classical and Italian Drama to Shakespeare

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-09 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Michele Marrapodi and Graham Holderness
S28: The Skirts of the Forest: Re-placing Arden

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-01 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Tom Bishop, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, William N. West
S25: Shakespeare, Spirituality, and Universal Spaces for Encounter

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-03 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Marta Cerezo and Marguerite Tassi
S22: Shakespeare and the New Psychoanalysis

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-10 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Catherine Bates and James W. Stone
S18: Planetary Poets

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-08 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar

Paul Edmondson and Claudia Olk
O4: turning the green one red – A Devised Adaptation of Macbeth

July 25 @ 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Teatro Fucina Culturale Machiavelli Via Madonna de Terraglio, 10, Verona

O: Open Sessions

Jaq Bessell, Andrea Coppone, and the students of the "SaM" Summer School 2026
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 25 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Villa Buri Via Bernini Buri, 99, Verona, Italy

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe

"A Midsummer Night's Dreams" - Kulcsár Noémi Tellabor (Hungary)
Social Dinner

July 25 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Villa Buri Via Bernini Buri, 99, Verona, Italy

SD: Social Dinner
Registration – Help Desk

July 26 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Exhibits

July 26 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
L03: Thinking through Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare’s (Re)Sources

July 26 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 pm

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

L: Plenary Roundtable

Silvia Bigliazzi, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Tania Demetriou, Hannibal Hamlin, Rob Henke, Atsuhiko Hirota, Jason Lawrence, Sonia Massai, Peter G. Platt, Janice Valls-Russell
ISA General Meeting

July 26 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Polo Santa Marta | Aula Magna Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

GM: General Meeting
Guided Tours

July 26 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

GT: Guided Tours
Creative Musical Performance – A Planet of Sound and Fury: Shakespeare Rewilded

July 26 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Conservatorio Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco Via Abramo Massalongo, 2, Verona, Italy

SH: Show

Alys Daroy and Conservatorio "Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco", Verona

July 2026