Romance of Translation: Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata in the Elizabethan Twilight

The translations of Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata by Richard Carew (1594) and Edward Fairfax (1600) import the hybrid genre of the Italian romance epic into the evolving literary polysystem of the English Renaissance. These two significant translations present an intriguing struggle between fidelity...

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Main Author: Reid, Joshua
Published: Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2017
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Online Access:https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2855
https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqx001