By Michael Saenger
This research emerges from an interdisciplinary dialog concerning the thought of translation and the function of overseas language in fiction and society. by means of studying Shakespeare's therapy of France, Saenger interrogates the cognitive borders of britain - a border that used to be extra depending on languages and ideas than it was once on governments and seashores.
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Lever finds echoes of Eliot in many of Shakespeare’s plays. ”8 Frances Yates makes a plausible argument that Eliot’s book was meant to be read as a burlesque of other conversationally based primers, especially those of Florio and Hollyband, although she may be overstating the coherence of the book in this assessment. Lever locates the source for Gaunt’s famous speech in his essay:9 a French poem by Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas, first translated in Ortho-Epia Gallica. The intertextual link is clear enough when the Arden editor of Richard II prints Eliot’s text.
19 The French language and people thrived in England. John Eliot is clearly being sarcastic when he quips that “London is full of Italians and 24 SHAKESPEARE AND THE FRENCH BORDERS OF ENGLISH Frenchme[n]” (Ortho-epia Gallica, sig. D2r), but the statement implies a hint of anxiety that London’s Englishness is not an unassailable fact, but must rather be done into being. 26 For all these reasons, French was the other language with the most developed place in print culture and oral city life, and thus was a crucial point of access in shaping and reflecting England’s perception of its world and itself.
My point is, indeed, to suggest that we examine interlinguistic texts in a continuum across a wide variety of genres. I suggest that language primers are an important part of the scene, a part that has attracted little attention, and that they are helpful in theorizing Shakespeare’s treatment of France and the French language. Thus, this chapter is a synthesis and advocacy of recent criticism, and an extension of that mode to cover neglected materials. In the next chapter, I build on this foundation by offering some new methodologies that may prove useful in addressing these texts.