SEDERI Yearbook ISSN: 1135-7789
[email protected] Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies España Nicolaescu, Madalina Introducing Shakespeare to the fringes of Europe: The first Romanian performance of The Merchant of Venice SEDERI Yearbook, núm. 27, 2017, pp. 129-148 Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies Valladolid, España Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333553631006 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Introducing Shakespeare to the fringes of Europe: The first Romanian performance of The Merchant of Venice Madalina Nicolaescu Universitatea din București, Romania ABSTRACT Shakespeare was introduced into the Romanian Principalities between 1830 and 1855, beginning with a production of The Merchant of Venice, translated from a French adaptation of the play. This essay considers the dearth of critical attention paid to the influence of French melodrama in Southeastern Europe, and in Romania in particular; examines the circulation of Shakespearean productions in this area; and investigates the various processes of de-and re-contextualization involved in the melodramatic adaptation of The Merchant of Venice in France in the 1830s and in its translation/performance in the Romanian Principalities in the 1850s. KEYWORDS: Shakespeare