Mike Pincombe - Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century: Selected Papers from the Second International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (2000)

Selected Papers from the Second International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (2000)

Edited by
Mike Pincombe

Studies in European Cultural Transition

Volume Twenty

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing

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Tudor Symposium. International Conference (2nd: 2000). Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century: Selected Papers from the Second International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (2000). (Studies in European Cultural Transition: 20).

I. TranslatorsEnglandHistory16th centuryCongresses. 2. Translating and interpretingEuropeHistory16th centuryCongresses. 3. English literatureEarly modern, 15001700History and criticismCongresses. 4. Travelers writings, EnglishHistory and criticismCongresses. 5. Travel writingEnglandHistory16th centuryCongresses. 6. English literatureTranslationsHistory16th centuryCongresses. 7. Travel in literatureCongresses. I. Title. II. Pincombe, Michael. 820.935709031

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Tudor Symposium. International Conference (2nd: 2000). Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century: Selected Papers from the Second International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (2000).
p. cm. (Studies in European Cultural Transition: 20).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. English literatureEarly modern, 15001700History and criticismCongresses. 2. Travelers writings, EnglishHistory and criticismCongresses. 3. Translating and interpretingGreat BritainHistory16th centuryCongresses. 4. Great Britain HistoryTudors, 14851603Congresses. I. Pincombe, Michael. II. Title. III. Series.
PR413.T835 2000
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Arthur F. Kinney

Elizabeth Heale

Efterpi Mitsi

Cathy Shrank

Melanie Ord

Benedek Pter Tta

Mark Robson

Georgia E. Brown

Amina Alyal

Massimiliano Morini

Roy Rosenstein

Mike Pincombe

Amina Alyal is currently senior lecturer in English at Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds. She took her first degree at Cambridge and her D.Phil. at York. Her research and teaching interests are in Shakespeare, Shakespeare and film, sixteenth-century literary theory, theories of drama, Renaissance perceptions of gender, and the influence of Italy on Renaissance literature. She is currently writing a book, developing her doctoral thesis, on Shakespeare and poiesis, which examines imitation theory in the light of the Petrarchan muse. A future project is partially in draft a book on Shakespeare and film. She is writing a series of articles on Renaissance subjects. In addition, she is preparing a work of semi-fiction, a collection of essays/stories on perceptions of the artistic from a multicultural perspective. She also teaches drama, and maintains an interest in current theatre productions, including writing programme notes for the RSC and Glyndebourne Touring Opera.

Georgia E. Brown is interested in sixteenth-century literature and she has published articles on Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance historiography, the epyllion, Elizabeth Is translation of Boethius Consolation of Philosophy, and Shakespeare. Her book, The Generation of Shame, on literature of the 1590s is in preparation and she is editing a collection of essays on material culture with Juliet Fleming. She is also preparing a book-length study of Renaissance embroidery, entitled The Geometry of Words: Reading Renaissance Embroidery. She is currently working on the interface between Ottoman, Arabic and Western cultures in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Elizabeth Heale teaches in the English Department at the University of Reading. Dr Heales teaching covers the literature of most of the early modern period and she is closely involved with an interdisciplinary History and English, early modern MA. Her research interests are in sixteenth-century poetry. Publications include A Readers Guide to The Faerie Queene (2nd edn 1999) and Wyatt and Surrey & Early Tudor Poetry (1998). A study of verse from Tottel to Shakespeare called Chronicles of the Self. Autobiography and Authorship in Sixteenth-Century Verse appeared in the Early Modern Literature in History series from Palgrave in 2003.

Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author, most recently, of Lies Like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth and the Cultural Moment (2001) and Shakespeare by Stages (2003) among many other books. He is the editor, most recently, of Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments; A Companion to Renaissance Drama; Cambridge Companion to English Literature 15001600; New Critical Essays on Hamlet; and The Witch of Edmonton (for New Mermaids). He is the founding editor of the journal English Literary Renaissance and founding editor of the book series Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture as well as editor of the Twayne English Authors Series in the Renaissance. He is the president of the Renaissance English Text Society and a member of the Executive Council of the Renaissance Society of America, and the executive committee of the Folger Library Institute. He is the founder and past president of the MLA Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and was recently a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Efterpi Mitsi is a lecturer in English literature and culture at the University of Athens, teaching courses on sixteenth-and seventeenth-century poetry, on the culture of the Renaissance, and on literary theory. She has a degree in English literature from the University of Athens and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University. She has taught as a lecturer in English literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Cyprus. She has published articles in Greek and foreign journals on sixteenth-century English literature, comparative literature and travel literature, and has prepared an anthology of womens travel writing on Greece. She is currently working on a book about British travellers to Greece, focusing on the early modern period.