„Blicken wir in die Originalausgabe!“: Michael Bernays als „Anwalt“ von Goethe und Shakespeare

Christa Jansohn; Bodo Plachta

doi:10.1515/editio-2021-0007

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„Blicken wir in die Originalausgabe!“

Michael Bernays als „Anwalt“ von Goethe und Shakespeare

Christa Jansohn and Bodo Plachta

Published/Copyright: October 16, 2021

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From the journal editio Volume 35 Issue 1

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With his contributions both to textual criticism and editorial methodology, Michael Bernays substantially shaped the field of scholarly editorial practice in the nineteenth century. While his treatise of 1866, Über Kritik und Geschichte des Goetheschen Textes (On the Critical Reception and History of Goethe’s Texts), has come to be recognized as one of ‘foundational’ documents of editorial theory and practice, his 1872 analysis of the gestation and emergence of August Wilhelm Schlegel’s Shakespeare translations (Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Schlegelschen Shakespeare –The Creation of Schlegel’s Shakespeare), as well as his conception of a new and revised edition of the Schlegel-Tieck translation (1871–1873, 1892), have both until now attracted very little attention. This article attempts to provide a more precise account of Bernays’ text-critical methodology, and to set his editorial deliberations over the Schlegel-Tieck translation in the broader context of contemporary endeavours to create a ‘German’ Shakespeare.

Diesen ersten Teil des Beitrags hat Bodo Plachta, den anschließenden zweiten Teil hat Christa Jansohn verfasst.

Published Online: 2021-10-16

Published in Print: 2021-10-14

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