Theory and Practice of Chaucerian Modernisations in Eighteenth Century Britain with Particular Reference to George Ogle's 'Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Nakamura, Tetsuko.

Title
Theory and Practice of Chaucerian Modernisations in Eighteenth Century Britain with Particular Reference to George Ogle's 'Clerk's Tale'

Published
Roger Ellis and Rene Tixier, eds. The Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age, 5 ([Turnhout, Belgium] : Brepols, 1996), pp. 322-33.

Description
Surveys eighteenth-century translations of portions of Chaucer's CT, examining Ogle's translation of ClT as an example in which the translator adapted the original to contemporary taste. Ogle's Walter and Griselda are a couple with human feelings and sentiments.

Alternative Title
Medieval Translator, no. 05

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
Clerk and His Tale.