“Ex rebus ipsis non solum ex libris”: Translating the Arts and Sciences in Elizabethan England

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Translation and Literary Theory
6. Elizabethan Translation – A Polyphonic Art: Reconciling the Demands of Letter and Spirit 21
7. Elizabethan Defences of Translation, from Rhetoric to Poetics: Harington’s and Chapman’s “Brief Apologies” 43
8. “Mine own and not mine own”: The Gift of Lost Property in Translation and Theatre 81
9. Enacting the Classics: Translation and Authorship in Ben Jonson’s Poetaster 111
10. “All gentilmen dooe speake the courtisane”: Negotiations of the Italian Questione della lingua in William Thomas and the Florios 147
11. “Ex rebus ipsis non solum ex libris”: Translating the Arts and Sciences in Elizabethan England 167
12. Part II: Translation and Literary Practice
13. The Province of Verse: Sir Thomas More’s Twelve Rules of John Picus Earle of Mirandula 201
14. Translation, Authorship, and Gender: The Case of Jane Seager’s Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills 227
15. Travelling Translations: Classical Literature in Mid-Sixteenth-Century England 255
16. Appropriating France in Elizabethan Drama: English Translations of Robert Garnier’s Plays 275
17. The Framing of Fiammetta: Gender, Authorship, and Voice in an Elizabethan Translation of Boccaccio 299
18. “Did Ariosto write it?” – (Mis)translating Women in Sir John Harington’s Version of Orlando Furioso 341
19. “It is I that am the right Sancho Pansa, that can tell many tales”: Thomas Shelton’s Translation of Don Quixote (1612/1620) 367
20. List of Contributors 381
21. Index of Names 385