Romeo and Juliet in European Culture

Shakespeare in European Culture

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Romeo and Juliet in European Culture Edited by Juan F. Cerdá, Dirk Delabastita and Keith Gregor

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Romeo and Juliet in European Culture

Shakespeare in European Culture (SEC) issn 2452-1930

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Shakespeare in European Culture is an international book series promoting the historically based study of the aesthetic, cultural, linguistic and political functions that Shakespeare as a figure and his works have played in Europe’s complex and evolving multilingual and multicultural spaces during the past 425 years. Books in the series will be either collective volumes or monographs. The series takes a particular interest in books that trace the European history of individual Shakespearean works (e.g., Romeo and Juliet in European Culture). The series aims to highlight not only how Shakespearean texts, models and myths have shaped European cultural identities, but also that there is no ‘Shakespeare’ without his European sources, influences and afterlives. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/sec

Editors Dirk Delabastita University of Namur

Associate Editors Keith Gregor

University of Murcia

Juan F. Cerdá

University of Murcia

Ton Hoenselaars Utrecht University

International Advisory Board Sirkku Aaltonen

Jacek Fabiszak

Ángel-Luis Pujante

Maurizio Calbi

Peter Holland

Sabine Schülting

Nicoleta Cinpoeş

Rui Carvalho Homem

Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

Michael Dobson

Markus Marti

Pavel Drábek

Lena Cowen Orlin

University of Vaasa University of Salerno University of Worcester The Shakespeare Institute University of Hull

Adam Mickiewicz University University of Notre Dame University of Porto

University of Murcia Freie Universität Berlin University of Montpellier

University of Basel Georgetown University

Volume 1 Romeo and Juliet in European Culture Edited by Juan F. Cerdá, Dirk Delabastita and Keith Gregor

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Romeo and Juliet in European Culture Edited by

Juan F. Cerdá University of Murcia

Dirk Delabastita University of Namur

Keith Gregor University of Murcia

John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984.

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doi 10.1075/sec.1 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress: lccn 2017041496 (print) / 2017049809 (e-book) isbn 978 90 272 0912 2 (Hb) isbn 978 90 272 6478 7 (e-book) © 2017 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Company · https://benjamins.com

Table of contents

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List of contributors Introduction: European households, alike in dignity? Juan F. Cerdá, Dirk Delabastita and Keith Gregor chapter 1 Heavenly eloquence: Romeo and Juliet and linguistic conflict Balz Engler chapter 2 Juliet’s balcony: The balcony scenes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet across cultures and media Manfred Pfister chapter 3 Romeo and Juliet in Germany: From the English actors to Goethe Simon Williams chapter 4 Romeo and Juliet on the French stage: From the early versions to the English production at the Odéon Theatre in 1827 Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine

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chapter 5 Romeo and Juliet in Spain: The neoclassical versions Ángel-Luis Pujante and Keith Gregor

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chapter 6 Judaisation in the first Hebrew translation of Romeo and Juliet Lily Kahn

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chapter 7 Giulietta e Romeo: From early nineteenth-century Italian adaptations to Ernesto Rossi’s Shakespearean debut (1869) Lisanna Calvi

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