International theatre touring at a time of plague: Maria Shmygol on early modern playing

13 January, 2021

In: Conversations, Culture, Literature, Performance, Theatre

Tagged: dramaturgy, early modern, History, literature, Performance, Shakespeare, theatre history

European audiences got so used to seeing the English onstage they had to remind themselves that ‘Not all Englishmen are actors’. Maria Shmygol tells us about English theatre companies travelling Northern Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, exploring how plays adapt and translate across languages, cultures and customs. We also hear about the Early Modern German Shakespeare project.

People

Maria Shmygol
Early modernist

Andy Kesson
A Bit Lit host

For more on these ideas, see:

Maria Shmygol A Tale of Two Mandevilles: The Travels in Print, 1496-1625
Medieval and Early Modern Orients
William Shakespeare Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet: Der Bestrafte Brudermord and Romio und Julieta in Translation (ed. Lukas Erne and Kareen Seidler) 2020
The Early modern German Shakespeare project
Albert Cohn Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: An Account of English Actors in Germany and the Netherlands and of the Plays Performed by them during the Same Period 1865; reprinted 1971
Ton Hoenselaars ‘The Seventeenth-Century Reception of English Renaissance Drama in Europe’ SEDERI 10 1999
pp. 69-87
Willem Schrickx Foreign Envoys and Travelling Players in the Age of Shakespeare and Jonson 1986
Simon Williams Shakespeare on the German Stage, Volume 1: 1586-1914 1990