Article ID: CBB001550494

Natural Law in Dryden's Translations of Chaucer and Boccaccio (2014)

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This article examines the influence of natural law philosophy upon four of Dryden's translations of Chaucer and Boccaccio published in his final collection Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700): “Sigismonda and Guiscardo”, “The Wife of Bath, her Tale”, “Palamon and Arcite” and “Cymon and Iphigenia”. Situating Dryden's tales alongside the writings of his philosophical, political and literary contemporaries as well as their classical sources, it argues that Dryden's distinctive choice of vocabulary and innovative amplifications of his originals constitute a subtly provocative interrogation of the use of natural law rhetoric within the seventeenth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Jessica Rezunyk
David Lawton
Guillaume Delmeulle
Pessin, Andrew
Ulrich, Paul
Tsu, Jing
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Science and literature
Natural laws
Language and languages
Science and religion
Philosophy of science
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
15th century
Early modern
Medieval
18th century
Places
England
Great Britain
Americas
North America
Germany
Europe
Institutions
Oxford University
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