La tragédie d'Agamemnon avec deux livres de Chants de philosophie et d'amour, par Charles Toutain (1556)

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Charles Toutain AKA Charles Toustain Translator
Year: 
1556
Notes: 
See Sturel, Essai sur les traductions du théâtre grec en français avant 1550, in Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 20 (1913), pp.269-298. Retrieved from http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5767706d/f12.image.swf on 16/01/2012. Delcourt gives 1557 as publishing date. See Delcourt, Marie. Etude sur les traductions des tragiques grecs et latins en France depuis la Renaissance. 1925, p 85-90. Translation in alexandrine verse with alternating feminine and masculine endings. Choral songs in varied meter. Gustave Lanson listed this play as one of the two oldest French translations of Seneca with La Péruse's Médée (Delcourt, 85, note 1).
Publication details: 
Published in Paris
Languages: 
French
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URI: 
productions/translations/8811

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