Naslov
Shakespeare in Dubrovnik: The City and Its Festival

Autori
Lupić, Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, ostalo, znanstveni

Skup
Shakespeare 450: An International Conference Organized by The Société Française Shakespeare

Mjesto i datum
Pariz, Francuska, 21.04.2014. - 27.04.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Shakespeare ; contemporary performance ; Dubrovnik ; festival culture

Sažetak
In the summer of 2015 the Dubrovnik Summer Festival will be in its 65th year of continuous existence. It is a state- and city-funded festival that normally takes place from early July until late August every year and features, in addition to theatrical performances, a number of music events: from concerts and operas to traditional and modern dance performances. Various other cultural activities take place in the city streets and squares, on the fortresses, in the parks outside the city walls, and occasionally in the nearby villas where Ragusan aristocrats spent their summers. Given the rich history of the city—which from the late Middle Ages until the early nineteenth century was an independent city state (the Republic of Ragusa), famous for its vibrant literary and theatrical life—its summer festival cannot be understood outside of the specific historical and cultural context within which it takes place. The history of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, I argue, is a history of struggle for identity. Shakespeare has been central to this struggle as his works regularly feature on the festival’s program and compete for preeminence with the dramatic masterpieces of the city’s own dramatists. It remains to be seen whether Shakespeare will matter more or less in Dubrovnik now that the city has, once again, become a major center of international tourism and is therefore finding it extremely difficult to accommodate both the summer festival and the numerous summer tourists within the same city walls.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Kazališna umjetnost (scenske i medijske umjetnosti)

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