CAMPS Lab: Transnational Transformations of English Drama

CAMPS Lab

Transnational Transformations of English Drama

Dr Maria Shmygol (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Moore Institute, University of Galway)

Dr Maria Shmygol (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Moore Institute, University of Galway) will be presenting on ‘Transnational Transformations of English Drama: Tito Andronico (1620) and the Early Modern German Shakespeare Edition Project’

This paper examines seventeenth-century German adaptations of English plays, which were taken to the Continent by travelling players from the 1580s onwards. These German play texts emerged from a process of cultural and theatrical translation, whereby English drama was adapted for German audiences, often through a process of streamlining the plot and placing greater emphasis on physical action. Dr Shmygol’s paper situates these plays in the broader history of early modern transnational drama and practices of textual editing. This is primarily achieved through offering an account of the Early Modern German Shakespeare project, which has produced modern English scholarly editions of four ‘German’ Shakespeare plays (including a version of Titus Andronicus), published in Bloomsbury’s Arden Shakespeare series.

Registration

This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway and streamed simultaneously on Zoom.

If you wish to attend via Zoom, please register through this link: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkcu6gqTwsH9aTRylLKNnINMq_-7dTFT_H