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The Middle English Text of ‘Caxton’s Ovid’, Books II–III - Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, Old Library, MS F.4.34 with a Parallel Text of The ‘Ovide moralisé en prose II’. Edited from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fonds français 137

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William Caxton completed his English translation of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ in 1480 in Westminster. It is, however, not based on the Latin original, but on a moralized, that is, allegorized French version, the so-called ‘Ovide moralisé en prose II’. There the stories and transformations are first told and then usually provided with an allegorical explanation. Caxton translated the French text fairly literally on the whole, but he was very fond of binomials and adopted them not only from his source, but also introduced many new ones.

Diana Rumrich’s edition of Book I was published in 2011 as MET 43, and now Wolfgang Mager offers a critical edition of Books II–III together with the French source, as well as an introduction, commentary, index of names, glossary and bibliography.

This volume is the second in a series designed to edit the whole of ‘Caxton's Ovid’.

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Assisted by Wolfgan Mager (Editor), Wolfgang Mager (Editor)
Publisher Universitätsvlg. Winter
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.03.2016
 
EAN 9783825365943
ISBN 978-3-8253-6594-3
No. of pages 220
Dimensions 155 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
Weight 406 g
Illustrations 6 Tabellen
Series Middle English Texts
Middle English Texts
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

Ovid, Literaturwissenschaft: Antike und Mittelalter, Mittelenglisch, Altfranzösisch, Ovidius Naso, Publius, Caxton, William, Ovid /Überlieferung, Ovid /Übersetzung

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