Seneca and Chaucer: Translating both Poetry and Sense
- Author / Editor
- Ahl, Frederick.
Seneca and Chaucer: Translating both Poetry and Sense
- Published
- George W. M. Harrison, ed. Seneca in Performance (London: Duckworth, 2000), pp. 151-71.
- Description
- Laments the difficulties of translating wordplay, drawing examples from Chaucer to clarify examples from Seneca and other classical drama. Shows where modern translations of Chaucer's works lose puns, audio echoes, "syllabic play," and anagrams
- Contributor
- Harrison, George M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Seneca in Performance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
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