Aspects de la comedie sacree a la Renaissance. Les traductions d’Antoine Tiron (1564)

edited by Alain Culliere

Book cover: Aspects de la comedie sacree a la Renaissance. Les traductions d’Antoine Tiron (1564)

Extent: 235 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Textes de la Renaissance

Series volume number: 230

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(December 2020)

ISBN: 9782406099208

Price: $31.00

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Hardback (Published)

(December 2020)

ISBN: 9782406099215

Price: $80.00

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Antoine Tiron, who was a tutor in Antwerp, translated two of the best sacred comedies of the Renaissance into French: Josephus (1544) by Macropedius and Acolastus (1529) by Gnapheus. Although intended for scholarly reading, these translations reveal a remarkable sense of theatricality.

  • Edited by Alain Culliere