An tOllamh Ben
Hudson, Ollamh le Stair agus le Léann na Meánaoise, a thabharfaidh an léacht
tionscnaimh dar teideal ‘Macbeth - Making a Monster’
Dé Máirt, 14 Aibreán, 2014 Tionólfar Léacht
Chuimhneacháin Uí Bhriain faoi choimirce Scoil na
dTeangacha, na Litríochtaí agus na gCultúr mar chomhartha ómóis do Mháirtín Ó
Briain. Is é an tOllamh Ben Hudson, Ollamh le Stair agus le Léann na Meánaoise,
Penn State University a thabharfaidh an léacht Dé Máirt, an 29 Aibreán, ag a 4 a chlog, in Amharclann McMunn in OÉ
Gaillimh.
Deich mbliana go ham
seo a d’imigh uainn, in aois a 53 bliain, an scoláire teastúil Máirtín Ó
Briain. Mar chomhartha ar an meas agus ar an ngean a bhí ar Mháirtín, agus mar
chomóradh ar thráth a imeachta uainn, reáchtálfaidh Scoil na dTeangacha, na
Litríochtaí agus na gCultúr in Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, Léacht Uí Bhriain / The Ó Briain Lecture ina
onóir. Deis a bheas i Léacht Uí Bhriain
an réim idirnáisiúnta a bhain le saothar an Bhrianaigh a mhóradh agus a
chuimhne a bhuanú.
Cé gur beag réimse de
Léann na Gaeilge ón Oghamchraobh aniar nach raibh suim agus saineolas ag
Máirtín ann, ba í an Fhiannaíocht a chéadrogha agus sméar mhullaigh an léinn
aige. Is é a sheanchara dílis an tOllamh Ben Hudson, Ollamh le Stair agus le
Léann na Meánaoise in Penn State University, a thabharfaidh an léacht
tionscnaimh dar teideal “Macbeth – Making a Monster”.
Tá aithne
idirnáisiúnta ar an Ollamh Hudson mar shaineolaí ar mhuirchríoch an Atlantaigh
sa Mheánaois, go mór mór ar an trácht mara idir Éirinn, Manainn, agus an
Bhreatain. I measc a chuid leabhar, tá Irish
Sea Studies: A.D. 900-1200 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006),
agus Viking
Pirates and Christian Princes; Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in the North
Atlantic (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005).
Dé Máirt, an 29
Aibreán, ag a 4 a chlog, in Amharclann McMunn, a thabharfar an léacht. Beidh sólaistí
le fáil ina diaidh. Cuirfear fáilte chroíúil roimh chuile dhuine go mór mór
roimh an bpobal.
Tá eolas breise le
fáil ón Dr Feargal Ó Béarra, Roinn na Gaeilge, Scoil na dTeangacha, na
Litríochtaí, agus na gCultúr, Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh. 091-493369.
MACBETH—MAKING A
MONSTER
Professor
Benjamin Hudson
Professor
of History and Medieval Studies, Penn State University, USA
The story of Macbeth
has fascinated audiences for centuries. As the historical prince was replaced
by legend, the tale became a treasure trove of motifs and characters borrowed
from medieval literature found from Ireland to Iceland and beyond. Beginning with
the famous Scottish highland/lowland divide that separated Gaelic-speakers from
their eastern compatriots, there are parallels with the Middle Irish tale ‘The
Second Battle of Moytura’, characters from Scandinavian mythology, and the
formal debate of the scholastic methods of the medieval university. Early in
the seventeenth century, a London playwright named William Shakespeare
wrote The Tragedie of Macbeth. The power of his story is
visible from its reinterpretations. In nineteenth-century Italy there was Giuseppe
Verdi’s Macbeth (1865), from the former Soviet Union
came Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk
District (1934) while more recently Yukio Ninagawa's 1980
production of Macbeth was set in sixteenth-century Japan, and American
fast-food culture provides the background to Billy Morrissette’s Scotland,
PA (2001). Tracing the development of Macbeth’s legend leads to a
fresh appreciation of the debt that Shakespeare’s play and its descendants owe
to the literature of the medieval Atlantic world.
