Massinger and Dekker's "The Virgin Martyr" in the Hands of German 'Comödianten'

MIKYŠKOVÁ, Anna. Massinger and Dekker's "The Virgin Martyr" in the Hands of German 'Comödianten'. In British Shakespeare Association Conference 2019. Shakespeare, Race and Nation. Swansea University, UK,17-20 July 2019. 2019.

Basic information

• Original name: Massinger and Dekker's "The Virgin Martyr" in the Hands of German 'Comödianten'
• Authors: MIKYŠKOVÁ, Anna (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: British Shakespeare Association Conference 2019. Shakespeare, Race and Nation. Swansea University, UK,17-20 July 2019, 2019.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60206 Specific literatures
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/19:00110725
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: Thomas Dekker; Philip Massinger; St Dorothy; Johann Georg Gettner; English and German comedians; drama; translation; adaptation
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The tragedy The Virgin Martyr (1618), a collaborative play by Philip Massinger and Thomas Dekker, was the first professional contribution to the Continental tradition of staging plays about St Dorothy. Shortly after its publication in England (1622) the play travelled with English itinerant actors to the Continent, where it became a popular piece, especially in the German lands. Johann Christian Neuhuber’s 2011 discovery of Johann Georg Gettner’s manuscript Die Heylige Martyrin Dorothea (1691?), which is a German adaptation of The Virgin Martyr, enables a textual comparative analysis which yields a unique insight into the fate of the Jacobean play abroad and into the practice of early modern German acting companies.

Links

• MUNI/A/1396/2018, interní kód MU: Name: Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments (Acronym: RCE)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A