Gordon Braden
Biographic Data
| ID | 999828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Braden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Braden |
| SIGNATURE | BRADEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Odysseus in the Renaissance
Wit's Treasury
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Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World
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The Passion of Dido
This chapter’s discussion of translations of Book 4 of the Aeneid spans sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English renditions of Virgil, when England and the English language were becoming prominent on the European and global scene. There is a consistent self-consciousness in this effort of using Virgil as a vehicle for translatio imperii , but also in the search for an English metre and idiom which could adequately convey the epic gravity of the…
The Senecan Aesthetic
Reviewed by: The Senecan Aesthetic: A Performance History by Helen Slaney Gordon Braden Helen Slaney. The Senecan Aesthetic: A Performance History. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 320. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-873676-9. A “performance history” of plays for which the first chapter of that history is unknowable seems like a perverse proposition, but Slaney brings it off, at times brilliantly. She clearly favors the…
Classical Greek Tragedy and Shakespeare
The desire to trace a connection between the ancient Greek tragedians and the playwrights of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater in England, especially Shakespeare, has been a durable one, though one that has met with comparably durable skepticism. Older efforts to assert that Shakespeare was intimately familiar with Greek tragedy have long been discredited. Some more recent critics have honorably affirmed the value of comparing Athenian and Sha…
Epic Annoyance, Homer to Palladas
Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century
Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century: The Popularization of Romance. Ian Frederick Moulton. Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xi + 250 pp. $90. - Volume 68 Issue 2
Classical Translation
This article provides a snapshot of the types of prose translation through a series of paradigmatic examples and judiciously selected quotations. Among these are Philemon Holland's English version of the elder Pliny's Natural History, Nicholas Grimald's version of Cicero's On Duties, Angel Day' first English version of Longus's pastoral romance Daphnis and Chloe, Alexander Barclay's translation of Sallust's Jugurtha, Thomas Stanley's translation …
The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English
This history runs from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. It is a critical history, treating translations wherever appropriate as literary works in their own right, and reveals the vital part played by translators and translation in shaping the literary culture of the English-speaking world, both for writers and readers. It offers new perspectives on the history of literature in English. As well as examining the translations and their wider impact…
Tragedy
This chapter surveys translations of Greek, Roman, and continental tragedies in the 1550–1660 period. Vernacular translations of Greek tragedy were sparse with educated readers most likely encountering Greek tragedy through quotations in other works. Fragments of Roman tragedy came into English via the same route as the fugitive quotations from their Greek predecessors. The scripts of ancient tragedy provoked ambitions to create modern examples o…
Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, 1550-1660
Milton's Ovidian Eve
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Ovid and Shakespeare
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Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England
Liz Oakley-Brown. Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England. Studies in European Cultural Transition 34. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. viii + 222 pp. index. illus. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5155-X.. - Volume 60 Issue 1
Sixteenth‐Century Poetry
Epic and Empire
David Quint. Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. x + 434 pp. - Susanne Lindgren Wofford. The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. xii + 520 pp. $45. - Volume 48 Issue 3
Manhood in the Making
Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic way, subscribes to the philosophy of the Stoic school, scholars and critics have long been asking the question whether the plays, also, could be regar…
The Idea of the Renaissance
The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy
James C. Bulman. The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985; distr. Associated University Presses, Cranbury, N.J. 254 pp. $28.50. - Paul A. Jorgensen. William Shakespeare: The Tragedies. (Twayne's English Authors Series, 415.) Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985. xviii + 164 pp. $14.95. - Volume 40 Issue 1
Milton's Coy Eve
Renaissance tragedy and the Senecan tradition
It's Not the Years, It's the Mileage
What would come of it all if you taught history? Fundamentally, of course, you are always teaching history, and have opened up some astonishing historical perspectives ... but I mean-if you were to illuminate history ex professo, with your particular lights and from your particular angle of vision: by comparison with the present consensus populorum everything would be stood on its head in the most splendid fashion! Jacob Burckhardt to Friedrich N…
It's Not the Years, It's the Mileage
What would come of it all if you taught history? Fundamentally, of course, you are always teaching history, and have opened up some astonishing historical perspectives ... but I mean-if you were to illuminate history ex professo, with your particular lights and from your particular angle of vision: by comparison with the present consensus populorum everything would be stood on its head in the most splendid fashion! Jacob Burckhardt to Friedrich N…
Renaissance tragedy and the Senecan tradition
Milton's Coy Eve
The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy
James C. Bulman. The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985; distr. Associated University Presses, Cranbury, N.J. 254 pp. $28.50. - Paul A. Jorgensen. William Shakespeare: The Tragedies. (Twayne's English Authors Series, 415.) Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985. xviii + 164 pp. $14.95. - Volume 40 Issue 1
The Idea of the Renaissance
Manhood in the Making
Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic way, subscribes to the philosophy of the Stoic school, scholars and critics have long been asking the question whether the plays, also, could be regar…
Epic and Empire
David Quint. Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. x + 434 pp. - Susanne Lindgren Wofford. The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. xii + 520 pp. $45. - Volume 48 Issue 3
Sixteenth‐Century Poetry
Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England
Liz Oakley-Brown. Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England. Studies in European Cultural Transition 34. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. viii + 222 pp. index. illus. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5155-X.. - Volume 60 Issue 1
Ovid and Shakespeare
This chapter contains sections titled: Further Reading
The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English
This history runs from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. It is a critical history, treating translations wherever appropriate as literary works in their own right, and reveals the vital part played by translators and translation in shaping the literary culture of the English-speaking world, both for writers and readers. It offers new perspectives on the history of literature in English. As well as examining the translations and their wider impact…
Tragedy
This chapter surveys translations of Greek, Roman, and continental tragedies in the 1550–1660 period. Vernacular translations of Greek tragedy were sparse with educated readers most likely encountering Greek tragedy through quotations in other works. Fragments of Roman tragedy came into English via the same route as the fugitive quotations from their Greek predecessors. The scripts of ancient tragedy provoked ambitions to create modern examples o…
Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, 1550-1660
Milton's Ovidian Eve
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Classical Translation
This article provides a snapshot of the types of prose translation through a series of paradigmatic examples and judiciously selected quotations. Among these are Philemon Holland's English version of the elder Pliny's Natural History, Nicholas Grimald's version of Cicero's On Duties, Angel Day' first English version of Longus's pastoral romance Daphnis and Chloe, Alexander Barclay's translation of Sallust's Jugurtha, Thomas Stanley's translation …
Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century
Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century: The Popularization of Romance. Ian Frederick Moulton. Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xi + 250 pp. $90. - Volume 68 Issue 2
Classical Greek Tragedy and Shakespeare
The desire to trace a connection between the ancient Greek tragedians and the playwrights of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater in England, especially Shakespeare, has been a durable one, though one that has met with comparably durable skepticism. Older efforts to assert that Shakespeare was intimately familiar with Greek tragedy have long been discredited. Some more recent critics have honorably affirmed the value of comparing Athenian and Sha…
Epic Annoyance, Homer to Palladas
The Senecan Aesthetic
Reviewed by: The Senecan Aesthetic: A Performance History by Helen Slaney Gordon Braden Helen Slaney. The Senecan Aesthetic: A Performance History. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 320. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-873676-9. A “performance history” of plays for which the first chapter of that history is unknowable seems like a perverse proposition, but Slaney brings it off, at times brilliantly. She clearly favors the…
The Passion of Dido
This chapter’s discussion of translations of Book 4 of the Aeneid spans sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English renditions of Virgil, when England and the English language were becoming prominent on the European and global scene. There is a consistent self-consciousness in this effort of using Virgil as a vehicle for translatio imperii , but also in the search for an English metre and idiom which could adequately convey the epic gravity of the…
Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World
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Wit's Treasury
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Odysseus in the Renaissance
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