An online roundtable hosted by the Society for Renaissance Studies

Romeo and Juliet, but not as we know it…

From the 1590s onwards travelling players took various plays from the London stage with them to Northern Europe, transforming them to make them comprehensible to local audiences. Among these plays was Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which was adapted into German and which comes down to us in a seventeenth-century manuscript copy as Romio und Julieta.

Join us for a roundtable conversation about issues of translation, adaptation, and performance as we discuss Creation Theatre’s upcoming online staged reading of Romio und Julieta based on a new English translation of the play by Lukas Erne and Kareen Seidler, published by Arden.

Organizer:  Maria Shmygol (U. of Leeds, ex. U. Genève)

Moderator:  Harry McCarthy (U. of Cambridge)

Early Modern German Shakespeare edition project

Early Modern German Shakespeare in Action: Creation Theatre's "Romio und Julieta"