Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568
2. Kinwelmersh, Francis, -1580?
3. Cunliffe, John William, 1865-1946
4. Ariosto, Lodovico.
5. Euripides.

Description

1. xxx, 441 pages frontispiece (portrait) facsimile; 16 cm

Series statement

1. The Belle-letters series : section III : the English drama

Uniform title

1. Belles-lettres series. Section 3, English drama.

Alternative title

1. Supposes.
2. Jocasta.

Subject

1. Euripides > Adaptations
2. Euripides
3. 18.29 Italian literature
4. 18.43 ancient Greek literature

Genre/Form

1. Adaptations
2. Adaptions (form)
3. Translations (form)
4. Drama (texts)
5. English drama

Contents

1. Supposes: a comedie written in the Italian tongue by Ariosto. Englished by George Gascoyne of Grayes Inne esquire, and there presented, 1566.--Jocasta: a tragedie written in Greeke by Euripides, translated and digested into acte by George Gascoygne and Francis Kinwelmershe of Grayes Inne, and there by them presented, 1566.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "The text adopted in this edition of the Supposes and Jocasta is that of 1575 [The posies of George Gascoigne esquire] "corrected, perfected, and augmented by the author," the title-page of which is here reproduced in facsimile from the Bodleign copy."
2. Half-title, p. [3]: Supposes: a comedie written in the Italian tongue by Ariosto. Englished by George Gascoyne of Grayes Inne esquire, and there presented, 1566.
3. Half-title, p. [129]: Jocasta: a tragedie written in Greeke by Euripides, translated and digested into acts by George Gascoigne and Francis Kinwelmersh of Grayes Inne, and there by them presented, 1566.
4. Jocasta is translated from Lodovico Dolce's version of the Phoenissae. Italian and English on opposite pages.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and glossary.