Imitation, Collaboration, Competition Between English and Continental Translators of Greek Tragedy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Foreword VII
4. Contents XI
5. List of Figures and Tables XV
6. Abbreviations XVII
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: Translating Comedy
9. Aristophanes’ Readers and Translators in 15th-Century Italy: The Latin Plutus of MS Matrit. Gr. 4697 17
10. From Translating Aristophanes to Composing a Greek Comedy in 16th c. Europe: The Case of Alciato 37
11. The Sausage-Seller Suddenly Speaks Vernacular: The First Italian Translation of Aristophanes’ Knights 53
12. Part II: Translating Tragedy
13. II.1: Scholarly Networks: Translation Models and Functions
14. An ‘Origin’ of Translation: Erasmus’s Influence on Early Modern Translations of Greek Tragedy into Latin 69
15. Imitation, Collaboration, Competition Between English and Continental Translators of Greek Tragedy 91
16. Why Translate Greek Tragedy? Melanchthon, Winsheim, Camerarius, and Naogeorgus 115
17. II.2: Proto-National Dynamics and Vernacular Translating
18. Translating Ancient Greek Tragedy in 16th- Century Italy 135
19. The Italian Translation of Euripides’ Hecuba by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger (1568–1647) 159
20. Sophocles in 16th-Century Portugal: Aires Vitória’s Tragédia del Rei Agaménom 175
21. Translating Ancient Greek Drama into French, 1537–1580 189
22. Part III: Beyond Translation
23. Translation Ad Spiritum: Euripides’ Orestes and Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548) 207
24. Interpreting Oedipus’ Hamartia in the Italian Cinquecento: Theory and Practice (1526–1570) 227
25. Coda: Dramaturgy and Translation
26. Early Modern Iphigenias and Practice Research 253
27. Afterword: Prospects for Pan-European Translation History 293
28. List of Contributors 305
29. Bibliography 307
30. Index Nominum et Rerum 335
31. Index Locorum 341