Overview
Plutarch was one of the most popular classical authors of the English renaissance. These volumes present selected translations from the Moralia and the Parallel Lives and put them in the context of Plutarch's wider influence in Tudor and Stuart England. They include selections from two established classics of English renaissance translation, North's Lives (1579) and Holland's Morals (1603), but also print a number of less well-known translations of individual Essays and Lives, in some cases for the first time: Thomas Wyatt's The Quiet of Mind (1528); Thomas Elyot's The Education of Children (1530); Thomas Blundeville's The Learned Prince (1561); and Henry Parker, Lord Morley's Life of Theseus and Life of Aemilius Paullus (1542-46/7). By representing the full range of translations of Plutarch in the period, the volumes highlight the variety of translation practices and the different social, political, and cultural contexts in which Plutarch was read and translated in Tudor and Stuart England.
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Author: Fred Schurink
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Imprint: Modern Humanities Research Association
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9781907322426
ISBN 10: 1907322426
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 18 December 2020
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Schurink's edition provides an accessible and extremely useful selection of some of the 'most popular and influential' English Renaissance translations of texts by Plutarch ... The really significant contribution to scholarship is Schurink's General Introduction. Here we see his command of the subject, and can trace the logic and the evidence that results in the inescapable conclusion that we really should take Plutarch more seriously ... There is much about these two volumes that makes them important material for anyone seeking to understand English literature in the sixteenth and, indeed, the seventeenth centuries. Freyja Cox Jensen, Translation and Literature, 30 (2021), 384-90
""Schurink's edition provides an accessible and extremely useful selection of some of the 'most popular and influential' English Renaissance translations of texts by Plutarch ... The really significant contribution to scholarship is Schurink's General Introduction. Here we see his command of the subject, and can trace the logic and the evidence that results in the inescapable conclusion that we really should take Plutarch more seriously ... There is much about these two volumes that makes them important material for anyone seeking to understand English literature in the sixteenth and, indeed, the seventeenth centuries."" Freyja Cox Jensen, Translation and Literature, 30 (2021), 384-90
