Sir Francis Kynaston Translating Chaucer: The Untimely "Troilus."
- Author / Editor
- Contzen, Eva von.
Sir Francis Kynaston Translating Chaucer: The Untimely "Troilus."
- Published
- Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 175 (2023): 62-81.
- Description
- Argues that Kynaston's Latin translation of Books I and II of TC, published in 1635, exemplifies "heterochrony"--a "temporal counter-site located in the present and indicative of alternative modernities." Addresses the "perceived outdatedness of Chaucer's English," the "timelessness" of Latin, Kynaston's effort to "ensure Chaucer's relevance," and the translator's "engagement with the various layers of pasts" in TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
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