Theaters of Translation

Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights In Theaters of Translation , Andrew S. Keener offers a fascinating account of the ways that plays by Thomas Kyd, Mary Sidney Herbert, Ben Jonson, and their fellow English contemporaries were shaped by and part of a multilingual Europe where dictionaries, grammars, and language-learning materials circulated widely. He proposes a fresh, multilingual approach to English Renaissan