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Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe : Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries) by Malika Bastin-Hammou (editor); Giovanna Di Martino (editor); Cécile Dudouyt (editor); Lucy C. M. M. Jackson (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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-centu

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Author

Malika Bastin-Hammou (editor); Giovanna Di Martino (editor); Cécile Dudouyt (editor); Lucy C. M. M. Jackson (editor)

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110718652

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction