The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.1113 Tuesday, 23 April 2002
From: Marcia Eppich-Harris <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 22 Apr 2002 20:33:31 -0500
Subject: 13.1095 Re: Alfred Jarry
Comment: Re: SHK 13.1095 Re: Alfred Jarry
> John Briggs writes:
>In which case the translation is rather good (who is it by?): to my
>untutored eye the original looks like a fine pastiche. How
>sixteenth-century French was actually pronounced is another question!
My copy of the Ubu plays is translated by Cyril Connolly and Simon
Watson Taylor. I have read that Jarry must have had some knowledge
(however slight) of English to be able to write this at all -- in French
or English. Who knows whether or not he did?
Marcia
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