Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe: Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries)

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe

Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries)

Edited by: Malika Bastin-Hammou , Giovanna Di Martino , Cécile Dudouyt and Lucy C. M. M. Jackson

Volume 5 in the series Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719185

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About this book

The volume brings together contributions on 15th and 16th century translation throughout Europe (in particular Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and England).
Whilst studies of the reception of ancient Greek drama in this period have generally focused on one national tradition, this book widens the geographical and linguistic scope so as to approach it as a European phenomenon. Latin translations are particularly emblematic of this broader scope: translators from all over Europe latinised Greek drama and, as they did so, developed networks of translators and practices of translation that could transcend national borders. The chapters collected here demonstrate that translation theory and practice did not develop in national isolation, but were part of a larger European phenomenon, nourished by common references to Biblical and Greco-Roman antiquities, and honed by common religious and scholarly controversies. In addition to situating these texts in the wider context of the reception of Greek drama in the early modern period, this volume opens avenues for theoretical debate about translation practices and discourses on translation, and on how they map on to twenty-first-century terminology.

Author / Editor information

M. Bastin-Hammou, Univ. Grenoble; G. Di Martino, Univ. College London; C. Dudouyt, Univ. Sorbonne; L. C. M. M. Jackson, Durham Univ.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Foreword Cécile Dudouyt Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Introduction Giovanna Di Martino and Cécile Dudouyt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Translating Comedy
Aristophanes’ Readers and Translators in 15th-Century Italy: The Latin Plutus of MS Matrit. Gr. 4697 Micol Muttini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
From Translating Aristophanes to Composing a Greek Comedy in 16th c. Europe: The Case of Alciato Malika Bastin-Hammou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
The Sausage-Seller Suddenly Speaks Vernacular: The First Italian Translation of Aristophanes’ Knights Simone Beta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Part II: Translating Tragedy
II.1: Scholarly Networks: Translation Models and Functions
An ‘Origin’ of Translation: Erasmus’s Influence on Early Modern Translations of Greek Tragedy into Latin Alexia Dedieu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Imitation, Collaboration, Competition Between English and Continental Translators of Greek Tragedy Angelica Vedelago Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Why Translate Greek Tragedy? Melanchthon, Winsheim, Camerarius, and Naogeorgus Thomas Baier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
II.2: Proto-National Dynamics and Vernacular Translating
Translating Ancient Greek Tragedy in 16th- Century Italy Giovanna Di Martino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
The Italian Translation of Euripides’ Hecuba by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger (1568–1647) Claudia Cuzzotti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Sophocles in 16th-Century Portugal: Aires Vitória’s Tragédia del Rei Agaménom Maria Luísa Resende Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Translating Ancient Greek Drama into French, 1537–1580 Cécile Dudouyt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Part III: Beyond Translation
Translation Ad Spiritum: Euripides’ Orestes and Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548) Lucy Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Interpreting Oedipus’ Hamartia in the Italian Cinquecento: Theory and Practice (1526–1570) Giulia Fiore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Coda: Dramaturgy and Translation
Early Modern Iphigenias and Practice Research Giovanna Di Martino and Estelle Baudou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Afterword: Prospects for Pan-European Translation History Stuart Gillespie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Index Nominum et Rerum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Index Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Classics, History of Scholarship, Reception-, Renaissance-, Performance-, and Translation Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 17
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 17
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Early modern translation theory; Latin and vernacular translation; reception of ancient Greek drama; translation for performance

eBook

Published: May 22, 2023
ISBN: 9783110719185

Hardcover

Published: May 22, 2023
ISBN: 9783110718652