The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0807 Tuesday, 19 September 2006
[1] From: Terri A. Bourus <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 18 Sep 2006 12:56:08 -0400
Subj: RE: SHK 17.0798 Shakespeare Outside of England/English
[2] From: Imtiaz Habib <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 18 Sep 2006 13:17:10 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0798 Shakespeare Outside of England/English
[3] From: Balz Engler <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 18 Sep 2006 19:39:23 +0200
Subj: Shakespeare Outside of England/English
[4] From: Peter Bridgman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 18 Sep 2006 19:39:08 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0798 Shakespeare Outside of England/English
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From: Terri A. Bourus <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 18 Sep 2006 12:56:08 -0400
Subject: 17.0798 Shakespeare Outside of England/English
Comment: RE: SHK 17.0798 Shakespeare Outside of England/English
While hardly Hamlet as we know it, there is an extant German play, Der
bestrafte Brudermord oder: Prinz Hamlet aus Dannemarck, published in
1781 from a now lost manuscript dated 1710. This play is written in
prose and lacks any verse, song, or soliloquies, but it does have a
roughly similar plot line and the name Corambus (for the Polonius
character), as it appears in Q1 Hamlet.
In 1626, an English troupe performed a play titled, Tragoedia von Hamlet
einen Printzen in Dennemarck in Dresden that may be linked to the German
drama.
Terri Bourus
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From: Imtiaz Habib <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 18 Sep 2006 13:17:10 -0400
Subject: 17.0798 Shakespeare Outside of England/English
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0798 Shakespeare Outside of England/English
In India from the nineteenth century, most vigorously in Bengal, so much
so that the discourse of translated Shakespeare gave rise to modern
Bengali drama and dramatic performance-in conjunction with Indian
performance/dramatic traditions. Calcutta is a strong center in this
activity, historically. More, if you need ...
Dr. Imtiaz Habib
Associate Professor of English
Old Dominion University
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From: Balz Engler <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 18 Sep 2006 19:39:23 +0200
Subject: Shakespeare Outside of England/English
>When were Shakespearean plays first performed outside of England?
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>When were Shakespeare's plays first translated?
The answer to these questions (and many others) may be found on the
Shakespeare in Europe website: http://pages.unibas.ch/shine/shine.html
Balz Engler
Basel University
http://pages.unibas.ch/anglist/people/teachers/engler.htm
Shakespeare in Europe, a prime Shakespeare website:
http://pages.unibas.ch/shine/
The Hyperhamlet project: http://www.hyperhamlet.unibas.ch/
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From: Peter Bridgman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 18 Sep 2006 19:39:08 +0100
Subject: 17.0798 Shakespeare Outside of England/English
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0798 Shakespeare Outside of England/English
Todd Pettigrew asks ...
>When were Shakespearean plays first performed outside of England?
This is from Michael Wood's book ...
"On 5 September 1607 Hamlet was performed on board the Dragon, anchored
off the coast of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Among the audience were
African dignitaries following a running paraphrase in Portuguese. The
players did Richard II, too, further down the coast, before sailing on
to India; unfortunately, there is no record of these Jacobean precursors
of the 'Shakespeare Wallah' performing before the Great Moghul on his
marble throne".
Peter Bridgman
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