APGRD id
8811
Title
La tragédie d'Agamemnon avec deux livres de Chants de philosophie et d'amour, par Charles Toutain (1556)
Year
APGRD 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).
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
Ancient works on which this translation is based
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/translations/8811