Early Modern German Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew

Lukas Erne is Professor of English Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003; 2nd edn 2013) and Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013). He gave the Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford in 2012. Florence Hazrat is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is author of Standing on Points: The History and Culture of Punctuation and Refrains in Early Modern Literature (forthcoming). Maria Shmygol is a Research Fellow on the ‘Complete Works of John Marston’ project at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the editor of William Percy’s The Aphrodysial (1602) in the Malone Society Reprints series (2022).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction to Tito Andronico (Titus Andronicus)
The Relationship of Tito Andronico to Titus Andronicus
Issues of Race in Tito Andronico
The Source of Tito Andronico
The Peacham Drawing
Titus and Vespasian and the Ur-Titus
The Chapbook Prose History and the Ballad
German Titus Plays in the Seventeenth Century
Textual Introduction
The Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien of 1620 and 1624
Friedrich Menius and the 1620 Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien
The 1620 Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien and Their Theatrical Origins
Conclusion
The 1620/1624 Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien: Extant Copies
Editorial History

Introduction to Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machen (The Taming of the Shrew)
The Relationship of Kunst über alle Künste to The Taming of the Shrew
Characters and Plot: Correspondences and Differences
Adapting the Plot of The Taming of the Shrew
Soliloquies and Asides
Verbal, Cultural and Dramatic Language
The Taming of the Shrew in German in the Seventeenth Century
Textual Introduction
The Early Editions and Their Contexts: Publication, Paratext and Authorship
The Order of Publication of the Two Editions of 1672
Extant Copies of the Early Editions
Editorial History

A note on the translations
A note on the commentary and collation

TITO ANDRONICO IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

KUNST ÜBER ALLE KÜNSTE, EIN BÖS WEIB GUT ZU MACHEN IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Appendix: Doubling charts for Tito Andronico and Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machen

Abbreviations and references
Index