William Adlington floruit fl. 1566 was one among the host of translators that made the Elizabethan era the Translation History golden age of translations . His Englishing of Apuleius 2nd century CE novel Metamorphoses , better known by its English title The Golden Ass 1566, reprinted 1571, 1582, 1596 ref Under the title The XI Bookes of the Golden Asse, Conteininge the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius London 1566 . this has been carefully proofread and is right ref was its first appearance in English and has been steadily reprinted into the 20th century. ref The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche is an excerpt from it. ref His prose is bold and delightful, though he does not stick as close to his source as a modern translator would be expected to do. The book was a favourite source of William Shakespeare Shakespeare s. ref Borrowings even in the tragedies were demonstrated in detail by John J. M. Tobin, in Kenneth Muir, ed. Shakespeare and the Classical World Shakespeare Survey 31 Cambridge University Press, 1978, and, for A Midsummer Night s Dream , by James A. S. McPeek, The Psyche Myth and A Midsummer Night s Dream Shakespeare Quarterly 23 .1 Winter 1972 69 79 . See also Robert H. F. Carver, The Protean Ass The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance Oxford Oxford University Press, 2007 . ref He addressed his dedication to Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex Thomas, Earl of Sussex , from University College, Oxford University College in Oxenford , but so little is known of him that he did not rate a Biography vita in the Dictionary of National Biography . A connection with the Adlington family of Cheshire is unproven. Notes reflist External links worldcat id id lccn n85 296831 gutenberg author id William Adlington name William Adlington DEFAULTSORT Adlington, William Category 16th century English people Category English translators ... more details
David Bellos is an English born translator and biographer. Bellos currently teaches French literature French and Italian literature Italian and Comparative literature at Princeton University in the United States. ref http www.princeton.edu fit people display person.xml?netid dbellos David Bellos at Princeton University ref Bellos research topics have included Honor de Balzac Balzac and Georges Perec . Bellos published an award winning translation of Perec s most famous novel , Life A User s Manual in 1987. He won the first Man Booker International Prize for translation in 2005 for his translations of works by Albanian author Ismail Kadare , despite not speaking Albanian the translations were done from previous French translations. ref http www.complete review.com quarterly vol6 issue2 bellos.htm The Englishing of Ismail Kadare by David Bellos, complete review Quarterly , vol. VI, issue 2 May 2005 ref Bellos has written a number of award winning literary biographies. He appears in The Magnificent Tati , a 60 minute documentary on the film maker Jacques Tati . ref IMDb title 1541159 The Magnificent Tati ref His irreverent survey of translation theory, Is That a Fish in Your Ear ? will be published by Penguin Books in 2011. ref http www.janklowandnesbit.co.uk david bellos fish your ear translation and meaning everything Is That A Fish In Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything at Morton L. Janklow Janklow & Nesbit ref Translations Georges Perec Life A User s Manual , 1987 French American Foundation s translation prize new edition, 2008 Georges Perec W, or the Memory of Childhood , 1988 Georges Perec Things A Story of the Sixties , 1990 Georges Perec 53 Days , 1992 Ismail Kadare The Pyramid , 1995 Ismail Kadare The File on H , 1996 Georges Ifrah A Universal History of Numbers , 2000 Ismail Kadare Spring Flowers, Spring Frost , 2001 Fred Vargas Have Mercy On Us All , 2003 Fred Vargas Seeking Whom He May Devour , 2004 Ismail Kadare The Successor , 2005 Ismail ... more details
stimulated by those of Molyneux. ref citation author A dam M ax Cohen title Englishing the globe ... Englishing the globe Molyneux s globes and Shakespeare s theatrical career url http cat.inist.fr ... more details
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