Author : Liza Blake
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1781886067
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)
Book Synopsis Arthur Golding’s 'A Moral Fabletalk' and Other Renaissance Fable Translations by : Liza Blake
Download or read book Arthur Golding’s 'A Moral Fabletalk' and Other Renaissance Fable Translations written by Liza Blake and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Golding’s manuscript translation of emblematic fables, A Morall Fabletalke (c. 1580s). By situating Golding’s text alongside William Caxton’s early printed translation from French (1485), Richard Smith’s English version of Robert Henryson’s Middle-Scots Moral Fabillis (1577), John Brinsley’s grammar school translation (1617), and John Ogilby’s 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.