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Shakespeare, Italian Comedies: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest

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Prof. Dr. phil. Thomas Kullmann

Beschreibung

Many of Shakespeare’s plays are set in Italy, considered by Shakespeare’s compatriots to be a place of good life, or of evil life, or both. We are going to examine the representations of Italy in some of Shakespeare’s comedies, paying particular attention to the issues of courtliness (courtly love and courtly intrigues) as well as politics, business and society.
Another issue will be the art of performing Shakespeare: We are going to prepare a performance, or a scenic reading, of one of the plays (probably The Merchant of Venice). To have enough time for preparation, we should start in March, and organize a weekend for rehearsals in May/June. I you are interested in taking part in this project, please let me know. Participation is not compulsory, but bachelor students can obtain 2 credit points for “Wahlbereich”, or 4 credit points for a “project” (Schlüsselkompetenzen, step 4) through participating.
Furthermore, I hope to be able to arrange an excursion to Stratford-upon-Avon and London (beginning of September 2024). Please let me know if you are interested in participating, preferably by 8th February. All students of English welcome (plus guests, according to arrangement). There is no requirement for seminar participants to take part in it.
We are going to read the four plays using following editions. Please do not acquire any other editions:
Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, ed. Roger Warren, The Oxford Shakespeare. OUP. 978-0192831422
Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, ed. Sheldon P. Zitner, The Oxford Shakespeare. OUP. 978-0199536115
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, ed. Jay L. Halio, The Oxford Shakespeare. OUP. 978-0199535859
Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan. The Arden Shakespeare. 978-1408133477
These books will be made available at zur Heide (Dielinger Str. 42B). You may also look for reasonably-priced second-hand copies on the internet, but please make sure the ISBN numbers are the same.
Please register for the course in person, seeing me in my office (preferably after making an appointment by e-mail) before the beginning of the semester. StudIP registration is not sufficient. All those who register in person will be allowed to participate.
And please make sure you have read the plays before term starts (There will be a short test on plot and characters).

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Ort: 41/E07
Zeiten: Mi. 18:00 - 20:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Mittwoch, 03.04.2024 18:00 - 20:00, Ort: 41/E07
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)

Studienbereiche

Interdisziplinäre Studiengänge > Literatur und Kultur in Europa > Modul 2: Nationale Literatur und Kultur A
Schnupper Uni > Anglistik; Englisch
Anglistik; Englisch > Kulturwissenschaft > Bachelor
Anglistik; Englisch > Kulturwissenschaft > Master
Language and Literary Studies
Anglistik; Englisch > Literaturwissenschaft > Bachelor
Anglistik; Englisch > Literaturwissenschaft > Master

Past and Forthcoming Events

Bernoulli-ims 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Bochum, August 12-16, 2024
Workshop on Stein's Method and Networks, Oxford, June 20-21, 2024
Spatial Stochastics in High Dimensions, Osnabrück, May 2-3, 2024
SPP2265-Meeting on Stochastic Geometry and Point Processes, Münster University, 15.11.2023
DMV meeting 2023, TU Ilmenau, 25.-28.09.2023
Workshop Random Graphs 2023, TU Dortmund, 04.-08.09.2023
43rd conference on Stochastic Processses and their Applications, in Lisbon, 24.-28.7.2023
UK Easter Probability Meeting, Stochastic modelling of complex systems, The Univesity of Manchester, 27.-31.3.2023
BOS Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Osnabrück, 22.-24.2.2023
Stochastic Geometry Workshop, Osnabrück, 23-25.11.2022
Workshop Recent Trends in Spatial Stochastic Processes, Eurandom Eindhoven, 03.-07.10.2022
SPP Workshop Limit theorems for spatial random structures, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 07.09.-09-09.2022
Stein’s Method: The Golden Anniversary, IMS Program Singapore, 13.06.–08.07.2022
SPP Random Geometric Systems First Annual Conference, 11.04-14.04 2022
Stochastiktage Mannheim, 27.09.-01.10.2021
First Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union and the German Mathematical Society, 8-10 March 2021, cancelled due to Coronavirus
UK Easter Probability Meeting, 30 March to 3 April 2020, cancelled due to Coronavirus
Dresdener Stochastik-Tage 24. to 27.03.2020, cancelled due to Coronavirus
Final Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, September 30 to October 2nd, 2019
SIAM in Bern, 07.2019
Symposium in memory of Charles Stein [1920-2016]
Women in probability, 31.05. to 01.06.2019
Fourth Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, January 10 and 11, 2019
Third Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, April 5 and 6, 2018
Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, 30.11. to 02.12. 2017
Second Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, June 26 and 27, 2017
Opening Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, December 6 to 8, 2016
Conference on Combinatorial Structures in Geometry
Organisation of the workshop Algebraic and Stochastic Aspects of Graph Theory
Talk at Junior Female Researchers in Probability in Berlin, October 22 and 23, 2015
Talk at Satellite workshop Recent Trends in Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics at Univ. Hamburg, September 20 and 21, 2015
Local Organisation of the 18th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis"18th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis"
Probabilistic and Geometric Facets of High Dimensions Organisation of the Mini-Workshop at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, October 9 and 10, 2014.
Organisation of the DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2014. Weitere Informationen
Project "Mathematik be-greifen" in the Alfried Krupp-Schülerlabor at RUB, 2006-2013.
Organisation of the IRTG Berlin-Zürich summer school "stochastic models of complex processes" and the Spring meeting Beijing/Bielefeld - Berlin/Zurich 2011
Organisation of the DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2009. Weitere Informationen

Publications

Asymptotics of a time-bounded cylinder model, with N. Aschenbruck and S. Bussmann, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964822000420
The method of cumulants for the normal approximation, with S. Jansen and K. Schubert, Probability Surveys 2022, Vol. 19, 185-270, https://doi.org/10.1214/22-PS7
Sedentary Random Waypoint, with C. Betken, arXiv:2009.02941
The Impact of Bit Errors on Intra-Session Network Coding with Heterogeneous Packet Lengths, with B. Schütz, N. Aschenbruck, S. Bussmann and M. Juhnke-Kubitzke, Proc. of the 45th IEEE LCN Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networking LCN, virtually hosted in Sydney, Australia, Nov. 16–19, 2020.
Stationarity for the Small World in Motion Mobility Model, with Nils Aschenbruck, Christian Heiden und Matthias Schwamborn, MSWIM '19: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Nov 25-29, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1145/3345768.3355935
Crossing Numbers and Stress of Random Graphs, with Markus Chimani and Matthias Reitzner, In Proceedings 26th International Symposium, GD 2018, Barcelona, Spain, 255--268, 2018 available here and for an extended journal version here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07558
Fluctuations in a general preferential attachment model via Stein's method, with Carina Betken and Marcel Ortgiese, Random Structures & algorithms, vol.55, no.4, 2019 available here
Connection times in large ad-hoc mobile networks, Bernoulli, vol.22, no.4, 2143--2176, 2016 available here
with Gabriel Faraud, Wolfgang König
The random disc thrower problem, Proceedings of the 90th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, 59-78, 2013 available here with T. van der Aalst, D. Denteneer, M. Hong Duong, R. J. Kang, M. Keane, J. Kool, I. Kryven, T. Meyfroyt, T. Müller, G. Regts, J. Tomczyk
Edge fluctuations of eigenvalues of Wigner matrices, High Dimensional Probability VI: the Banff volume, Progress in Probability, vol.66, 261-275, Springer, Basel, 2013 available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher
Moderate deviations for the determinant of Wigner matrices, Dedicated to Friedrich Götze on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Limit Theorems in Probability, Statistics and Number Theory, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol.42, 253-275, 2013, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher
Moderate deviations for the eigenvalue counting function of Wigner matrices, ALEA, Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 10 (1), 27-44, 2013, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher
Moderate deviations via cumulants, Journal of Theor. Probability, 2012, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher
Moments of recurrence times for Markov chains, Electronic Comm. Probab., 16(28), 296-303, 2011, available here
with Frank Aurzada, Marcel Ortgiese, Michael Scheutzow
Moderate deviations in a random graph and for the spectrum of Bernoulli random matrices, Electronic Journal of Probability, Vol. 14, Paper no. 92, 2636-2656, 2009, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher
Perpendicular transport of charged particles in slab turbulence: recovery of diffusion for realistic wave-spectra?, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 35, 025202, 2008
with Andreas Shalchi
Velocity correlation functions of charged test particles, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 34, 859, 2007
with Andreas Shalchi