Thomas May Lucans Pharsalia 1627
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Author |
: Emma Buckley |
Publisher |
: MHRA |
Total Pages |
: 461 |
Release |
: 2020-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781781889954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1781889953 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomas May, Lucan’s Pharsalia (1627) by : Emma Buckley
Lauded after his death as ‘champion of the English Commonwealth’, but also derided as a ‘most servile wit, and mercenary pen’, the poet, dramatist and historian Thomas May (c.1595–1650) produced the first full translation into English of Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile shortly before a ruinous civil war engulfed his own country. Lucan, whose epic had lamented the Roman Republic’s doomed struggle to preserve liberty and inevitable enslavement to the Caesars, and who was forced to commit suicide at the behest of the emperor Nero, was a figure of fascination in early modern Europe. May’s accomplished rendition of his challenging poem marked an important moment in the history of its English reception. This is a modernized edition of the first complete (1627) edition of the translation. It includes prefatory materials, dedications and May’s own historical notes on the text. Besides an introduction contextualising May’s life and work and the key features of his translation, it offers a full commentary to the text highlighting how May responded to contemporary editions and commentaries on Lucan, and explaining points of literary, political, philosophical interest. There is also a detailed glossary and bibliography, and a set of textual notes enumerating the chief differences between the 1627 edition and the others produced in May’s lifetime. This volume aims not just to provide an accessible path into the dense, sometimes provocative poem May shapes from Lucan, but also a broader appreciation of the translator’s literary merits and the role his work plays in the history of the English reception of Roman literature and culture.
Author |
: Thomas May |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 1914 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105010280654 |
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: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomas May's Tragedy of Julia Agrippina, Empresse of Rome by : Thomas May
Author |
: Donald R. Kelley |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 1997-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521590698 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521590693 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain by : Donald R. Kelley
Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.
Author |
: Joad Raymond |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 019928234X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199282340 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Invention of the Newspaper by : Joad Raymond
First published in 1996, and here issued with a new preface, this work describes the emergence of the first weekly news publications, the immediate precursors of the modern newspaper. Previous ed.: Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.
Author |
: Edward Paleit |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2013-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199602988 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199602980 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis War, Liberty, and Caesar by : Edward Paleit
In War, Liberty, and Caesar, Edward Paleit discusses how readers and writers of the English Renaissance read and understood Lucan's epic poem on the Roman civil wars. Looking at engagements with Lucan across a wide variety of literary forms, Paleit questions what made this Latin author so relevant during this period.
Author |
: Sophie Tomlinson |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521811112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521811118 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women on Stage in Stuart Drama by : Sophie Tomlinson
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Author |
: Ian Atherton |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2006-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0719071585 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719071584 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The 1630s by : Ian Atherton
Examining the Caroline era - a period of great importance to English history in the build-up to the Civil War, these essays address politics, religion, the monarchy, culture, literature, and art history.
Author |
: Syrithe Pugh |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2020-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526152664 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526152665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Conversations by : Syrithe Pugh
For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries – often more so. This volume seeks to recapture that sense of intimacy and immediacy, as scholars from both sides of the modern disciplinary divide come together to eavesdrop on the conversations conducted through allusion and intertextual play in works from Petrarch to Milton and beyond. The essays include discussions of Ariosto, Spenser, Du Bellay, Marlowe, the anonymous drama Caesars Revenge, Shakespeare and Marvell, and look forward to the grand retrospect of Shelley’s Adonais. Together, they help us to understand how poets across the ages have thought about their relation to their predecessors, and about their own contributions to what Shelley would call ‘that great poem, which all poets...have built up since the beginning of the world’.
Author |
: William Thomas Lowndes |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 628 |
Release |
: 1864 |
ISBN-10 |
: ONB:+Z188489000 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis “The” Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature by : William Thomas Lowndes
Author |
: William Thomas Lowndes |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 1860 |
ISBN-10 |
: EHC:148100103590W |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0W Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing ... and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century by : William Thomas Lowndes