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 of the same genre, both in Latin and in the vernaculars. These ambitions bore more fruit on the Continent, where they successfully integrated themselves with actual theatrical practice, but a modest run of translations testifies to English interest in the enterprise.

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