>mfw the norton tartuffe translations rhyme

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Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Sun Jan 9 03:17:15 2011 No.1438314 [Reply] [Original]

>mfw the norton tartuffe translations rhyme

Anonymous Sun Jan 9 03:21:15 2011 No.1438324

Tartuffe was written in Alexandrine couplets. One translator made a rough translation in prose. Then a second translator took that prose work and worked it into rhyming iambic pentameter to try and preserve the original feel, as presented in Moliere's own time.

They did the right thing.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Sun Jan 9 03:28:15 2011 No.1438337 >>1438324 they did, they did now, let me ask you something, which enlightenment writer should i read next? is Phaedra any good?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 9 03:30:15 2011 No.1438343 >>1438337 Phaedra is hot. Anthony Perkins, rawr!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 9 03:32:15 2011 No.1438349 >>1438337 Phaedra is a great read. Get the Ted Hughes translation and prepare to have your mind blown.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Sun Jan 9 03:37:15 2011 No.1438359 File: 5 KB, 259x194, BWA.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1438349 I'll have to jot that down, thanks anon

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