Early Modern German Shakespeare: Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet

Der Bestrafte Brudermord and Romio Und Julieta in Translation
Herausgeber: Erne, Lukas; Seidler, Kareen

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a translation of German versions of both Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. The introductions to each play place these versions of Shakespeare's plays in the German context, and offer insights into what we can learn about the original texts from these translations. English itinerant players toured in northern continental Europe from the 1580s. Their repertories initially consisted of plays from the London theatre, but over time the players learnt German, and German players joined the companies, as a result of which the dramatic texts were adapted and translated into German. A number of German plays now extant have a direct connection to Shakespeare. Four of them are so close in plot, character constellation and at times even language to their English originals that they can legitimately be considered versions of Shakespeare's plays. This volume offers fully edited translations of two such texts: Der Bestrafte Brudermord / Fratricide Punished (Hamlet) and Romio und Julieta (Romeo and Juliet). With full scholarly apparatus, these texts are of seminal interest to all scholars of Shakespeare's texts, and their transmission over time in print, translation and performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781350283114
• ISBN-10: 1350283118
• Artikelnr.: 62273869

Autorenporträt

Kareen Seidler holds a PhD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK. Her MPhil thesis on Romio und Julieta was awarded the Martin-Lehnert-Award of the German Shakespeare Society. Lukas Erne is Professor of English Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003). He has taught at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, at the University of Neuchâtel and, as Visiting Professor, at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Prefatory Note Introduction The Relationship of Der
Bestrafte Brudermord to Hamlet Origins: The Early Seventeenth Century The
Ur-Hamlet, the First Quarto, the Second Quarto, and the Textual Origins of
Der Bestrafte Brudermord Origins: The Later Seventeenth and the Eighteenth
Century Stage History, Early Modern and Modern Modern Editorial History A
Note on the Translation Translation A Note on the Annotation and Collation
Annotation Collation Appendix 1: Plot Correspondences between Der Bestrafte
Brudermord and Hamlet Appendix 2: The Relationship of Der Bestrafte
Brudermord to the Texts of Hamlet References