Geoffrey Chaucer

Author / Editor
Windeatt, Barry

Title
Geoffrey Chaucer

Published
Roger Ellis, ed. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume I: To 1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 137-48.

Description
Surveys Chaucer's career as a translator and the varieties of his "translational practice," focusing on his literal translations and how his "guise of the slavishly faithful translator" sometimes enables his "transformative adaptation." Considers Chaucer's translations from Latin, French, and Italian, with a section on his rhyme royal translation in the CT.

Alternative Title
Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume I: To 1550.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification