Early Modern German Shakespeare: Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet
Early Modern German Shakespeare: Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet

Author: Lukas Erne

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1350084026

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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.

On Hamlet
On Hamlet

Author: Salvador Madariaga

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1136264116

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Published in the year 1964, On Hamlet is a valuable contribution to the field of Performance.

Looking for Hamlet
Looking for Hamlet

Author: Marvin W. Hunt

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2007-12-10

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0230611370

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A mysterious, melancholic, brooding Hamlet has gripped and fascinated four hundred years' of readers, trying to "find" and know him as he searches for and avenges his father's name. Setting itself apart from the usual discussions about Hamlet, Hunt here demonstrates that Hamlet is much more than we take him to be. Much more than the sum of his parts--more than just tragic, sexy youth and more than just vain cruelty--Hamlet is a reflection of our own aspirations and neuroses. Looking for Hamlet investigates our many searches for Hamlet, from their origins in Danish mythology through the complex problems of early printed texts, through the centuries of shifting interpretations of the young prince to our own time when Hamlet is more compelling and perplexing than ever before. Hunt presents Hamlet as a sort of missing person, the idealized being inside oneself. This search for the missing Hamlet, Hunt argues, reveals a present absence readers pursue as a means of finding and identifying ourselves.