Plutarch in English, 1528–1603: Volume 1: Essays

Fred Schurink

Plutarch in English, 1528–1603
Volume 1: Essays

Edited by Fred Schurink

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Plutarch (46-120), Greek essayist

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Tudor and Stuart Translations 2/1 of 2

Modern Humanities Research Association

18 December 2020

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This is volume 1 of 2. See also volume 2 here.

Plutarch was one of the most popular classical authors in Renaissance England. These volumes present nine Tudor and Stuart translations from his Essays and Lives with a General Introduction locating these works in the context of Plutarch’s wider influence in early modern England. They offer selections from two of the classics of English Renaissance translation, North’s Lives (1579) and Holland’s Morals (1603): the essays ‘On Reading the Poets’ and ‘Talkativeness’ and the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero and Caesar. They also include editions of a number of less well-known but equally significant translations of individual Essays and Lives, one available in manuscript alone until now and several not reprinted since the sixteenth century: Thomas Wyatt’s The Quiet of Mind (1528), Thomas Elyot’s The Education or Bringing up of Children (1528-30), Thomas Blundeville’s The Learned Prince (1561), and Henry Parker, Lord Morley’s The Story of Paullus Aemilius (1542-46/7). Detailed annotations trace how translators drew on, and departed from, Greek, Latin, and French editions of Plutarch while introductions to each of the works examine their impact on English Renaissance literature and culture. By presenting a wide range of translations from the Essays and Lives, the volumes bring to light the variety of translation practices and the different social, political, cultural contexts in which Plutarch was read and translated in Tudor and Stuart England.

Fred Schurink's edition Plutarch in English, 1528–1603 is divided into two volumes, for the Essays and the Lives respectively.

Reviews:

‘The really significant contribution to scholarship is Schurink’s General Introduction. Here we see his command of the subject, and can trace the logic and the evidence that results in the inescapable conclusion that we really should take Plutarch more seriously... there is much about these two volumes that makes them important material for anyone seeking to understand English literature in the sixteenth and, indeed, the seventeenth centuries.’ — Freyja Cox Jensen, Translation and Literature 30, 2021, 384-390 (full text online)

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viii-viii	Acknowledgements Fred Schurink doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b3qqph.4	Cite
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ix-x	Abbreviations and References Fred Schurink doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b3qqph.5	Cite
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1-94	General Introduction Fred Schurink doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b3qqph.6	Cite
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95-99	English and Scottish Translations of Plutarch, 1500–1660 Fred Schurink doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b3qqph.7	Cite
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100-101	Further Reading Fred Schurink doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b3qqph.8	Cite
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102-106	Editorial Principles Fred Schurink doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b3qqph.9	Cite
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107-154	The Quiet of Mind (1528) Thomas Wyatt doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b3qqph.10	Cite
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155-204	The Education Or Bringing Up Of Children (1528–1530) Thomas Elyot doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b3qqph.11	Cite
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205-238	The Learned Prince (1561) Thomas Blundeville doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b3qqph.12	Cite
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239-330	‘How A Young Man Ought To Hear Poets And How He May Take Profit By Reading Poems’ From The Morals (1603) Philemon Holland doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b3qqph.13	Cite
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331-376	‘Of Intemperate Speech Or Garrulity’ From The Morals (1603) Philemon Holland doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b3qqph.14	Cite
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Plutarch in English, 1528–1603Volume 1: Essays

Edited by Fred Schurink

Plutarch in English, 1528–1603
Volume 1: Essays