![]() In the autumn of 2005, Ion Caramitru, the newly appointed then General Director of the National Theatre in Bucharest, announced that Edward III, a play recently attributed to Shakespeare (1985), will be brought to stage by theatre director Alexandru Tocilescu in the 2006-2007 season. For the latter title, Volceanov was rewarded by the jury of the Romanian Writers' Union with the Andrei Banta§ Foundation Translation Award. The idea of starting a New Romanian Shakespeare edition was preceded by the enlargement of the Shakespeare canon in Romania via the translation and publication of The Two Noble Kinsmen (by Polirom, as a bilingual edition, in 2002) and Edward III (2003), previously unknown to the general public, the theatre goers or theatre critics in Romania. ![]() Keywords: Shakespeare translation, page, stage, screen, performability, production. It is, therefore, a stocktaking exercise and its main goal is to provide Shakespeare scholars with an initial data base for further investigation of theatrical productions which use the new translation as significant moments in the history of Shakespeare's reception in Romania and, on the other hand, to occasion some reflective remarks on the six years of the series now at its tenth volume and 26 plays plus the Sonnets. This article aims at presenting the impact that the New Romanian Shakespeare edition launched in 2010 by George Volceanov has had on the literati and theatres so far. ![]() ![]() Ion Ghica, Nr.13, Sector 3 Bucureçti, 030045, Romania email: NEW ROMANIAN SHAKESPEARE SERIES ON THE MOVE: FROM PAGE TO STAGE AND SCREEN ![]() *George Volceanov Facultatea de Litere Universitatea "Spiru Haret" Bucureçti Str. ![]()
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