The First English Translations of Molière: Drama in Flux 1663-1732

Suzanne Jones

The First English Translations of Molière
Drama in Flux 1663-1732

Suzanne Jones

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'Molière', Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-73), French playwright

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28 September 2020 • 218pp

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As the most successful comic dramatist at the court of Louis XIV, Molière was certainly known to his London counterparts. During his early acting years in a touring troupe, the English theatres had been closed by the Civil Wars, but after 1660 viable plays were in great demand, and Molière was translated almost at once. Dryden, Behn, Fielding and many others took him up. All the same, his plays only began to be printed in English as immutable classics from around 1732 when a landmark edition was published in parallel text. Even then, English writers felt able to offer other translations that were free in their handling of the source material.

The result, as Jones shows in her ground-breaking study, was a rich diversity of translation practices, and an influx both of new vocabulary and new cultural currents. She ranges from theories of plot formation, translation, and prosody to an analysis of lexical terms evoking contentious social themes: marital discord, religious hypocrisy, the medical profession, and social pretension.

Suzanne Jones is a researcher in seventeenth-century French drama, and a Teaching Fellow in French at Durham University.

Contents:

1-14	Introduction Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.5	Cite
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17-40	Chapter 1 Dramatic Theory and Plotting Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.6	Cite
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41-58	Chapter 2 Translation Theory and Paratext Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.7	Cite
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59-82	Chapter 3 Rhythm, Rhyme, and Song Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.8	Cite
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85-104	Chapter 4 Cuckoldry and Gallantry Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.9	Cite
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105-126	Chapter 5 Zealotry and Hypocrisy Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.10	Cite
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127-156	Chapter 6 Malady and Quackery Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.11	Cite
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157-174	Chapter 7 Bourgeoisie and Urbanity Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.12	Cite
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175-182	Conclusion Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.13	Cite
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183-190	Appendix Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.14	Cite
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191-200	Bibliography Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.15	Cite
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201-206	Index Suzanne Jones doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgqn6.16	Cite
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The First English Translations of MolièreDrama in Flux 1663-1732

Suzanne Jones

The First English Translations of Molière
Drama in Flux 1663-1732