Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England by Marie-Alice Belle

Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England by Marie-Alice Belle

This volume gathers together, for the first time, Mary Sidney Herbert's Antonius (1592) and Thomas Kyd's Cornelia (1594), two significant and inter-related responses to Robert Garnier's Roman plays, Marc Antoine (1578) and CornElie (1572). As a unique diptych the translated plays offer invaluable insight into the often ghostly presence of French literature in Elizabethan culture. They also mark an important chapter in the development of early modern neoclassical drama, with Sidney Herbert and Kyd creatively engaging, each in their own way, with Garnier's learned, Senecan tragedies.

This edition offers a critical introduction situating the plays in the rapidly shifting context of the 1590s and discussing their critical reception as translations. The footnotes aim to illuminate Sidney Herbert's and Kyd's distinctive translation practices by signaling significant amendments to Garnier's text and by tracing the web of intertextual allusions that connects each translation, not only with Elizabethan practices of patronage, readership, and text circulation, but also with the wider intellectual and political debates of the late European Renaissance. Also featuring textual notes, a list of neologisms, and a glossary, this edition documents each text's material and editorial history, as well as their joint contribution to the linguistic creativity of the Elizabethan age.

Line Cottegnies, Ph.D. (1994), Universitü¾Ž–”¼ Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, is Professor of English Renaissance Literature at that university. She has published widely on Caroline poetry, early-modern women authors and translation. She also has an interest in editing early modern texts.

Sandrine Parageau, Ph.D. (2008), Universitü¾Ž–”¼ Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, is lecturer in English history at Universitü¾Ž–”¼ Paris Ouest Nanterre La Dü¾Ž–”¼fense. She has published Les Ruses de l'ignorance (Paris: 2010), as well as articles and book chapters on women philosophers.

John J. Thompson, D.Phil (1983), Queen's University, Belfast, is Professor of English Textual Cultures in the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities. He is author of two monographs and many essays on English lay reading experience, c. 1300-1600.

Contributors are Yan Brailowsky, Laetitia Coussement-Boillot, Armel Dubois-Nayt, Adeline Gargam, Sarah Hutton, Neil Kenny, Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand, Laura Levine, Christophe Martin, Marie-Frü¾Ž–”¼dü¾Ž–”¼rique Pellegrin, Beth Fowkes Tobin, and Susan Wiseman

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ISBN 13	9781907322679
ISBN 10	1907322671
Title	Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England
Author	Marie-Alice Belle
Series	Mhra Tudor And Stuart Translations
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Modern Humanities Research Association
Year published	2017-09-11
Number of pages	336
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