Arthur Golding's A Moral Fabletalk and other Renaissance fable translations / edited by Liza Blake and Kathryn Vomero Santos.
2017
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Title
Arthur Golding's A Moral Fabletalk and other Renaissance fable translations / edited by Liza Blake and Kathryn Vomero Santos.
Uniform title
Mythologia ethica. English
Published
Cambridge : Modern Humanities Research Association, 2017.
Description
xvii, 574 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series
MHRA Tudor & Stuart translations ; v. 12.
Summary
"This volume brings together five translations of Aesopian fables that range from the beginning to the end of the English Renaissance. At the centre of the volume is an edition of the entirety of Arthur Goldings manuscript translation of emblematic fables, A Morall Fabletalke (c. 1580s). By situating Goldings text alongside William Caxtons early printed translation from French (1485), Richard Smiths English version of Robert Henrysons Middle Scots Moral Fabillis (1577), John Brinsleys grammar school translation (1617), and John Ogilbys politicized fables translated at the end of the English Civil War (1651), this book shows the wide-ranging forms and functions of the fable during this period. Because Renaissance fables were not only textual but also visual, the edition includes the original images (woodcuts and engravings) designed to accompany the fables. The variety of fable translation practices included in this volume expands our understanding of literary translation in the early modern period. Likewise, the diversity of what gets counted as a fable, as the introduction shows, has implications both for the history of the Aesopian fable, and for the history of reading and thinking about fiction in the English Renaissance"--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A moral fabletalk / Arthur Golding
From The subtle histories and fables of Aesop / William Caxton
From The fabulous tales of Aesop the Phrygian / Richard Smith
From Aesop's fables translated grammatically / John Brinsley
From The fables of Aesop and Aesopics / John Ogilby.
From The subtle histories and fables of Aesop / William Caxton
From The fabulous tales of Aesop the Phrygian / Richard Smith
From Aesop's fables translated grammatically / John Brinsley
From The fables of Aesop and Aesopics / John Ogilby.
Includes
Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606. Morall fabletalke.
Aesop's fables. English.
Aesop's fables. English.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
PA8520.F84 M9813 2017