Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first critical edition of The Honourable, Pleasant and Rare Conceited Historie of Palmendos (London, 1589), a chivalric romance translated into English by Anthony Munday. The original text, Primaleón de Grecia I (Salamanca, 1512), soon became a bestseller on the Spanish market and was translated into many continental European languages. Munday’s translation derives from the French version by François de Vernassal (1550). It comprises the first thirty-two chapters of the French text and focuses on the adventures of Palmendos on his journey to Constantinople.
Anthony Munday died in 1633 at the age of seventy-three. He left behind a long career as a poet, playwright, author of civic pageantry, chronicle writer, pamphleteer and translator that made him one of the most versatile and prolific authors of his age. A controversial figure in his own time, he worked as a spy for Elizabeth’s government and wrote and translated works of religious controversy as well as pamphlets on contemporary European politics.
This is an original-spelling edition that produces a text as close as possible to Munday’s original manuscript.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Anthony Munday, Early Modern Prose Fiction, and European Chivalric Romance (1577-1603)
Translating Spanish Romances in Sixteenth-Century England: Munday's Method of Translation in Palmendos
The Publication History of Anthony Munday's Palmendos
The Text
Explanatory Notes
Textual Apparatus
Editorial Policy
Bibliographical Descriptions
Emendations
Word Division
Historical Collation
Glossary
List of Characters
Bibliographical References
