Don Quixote. English
| dc.contributor | Eris, Project |
| dc.contributor.author | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T15:15:10Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T15:15:10Z |
| dc.date.created | 1615 |
| dc.date.issued | 1994-01-12 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2011 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2011 |
| dc.description.abstract | Transcribed from a translation by John Ormsby of the 1615 ed. of Cervantes' Don Quixote. Fuller source details not available. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 1.91 MB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- Spain -- 17th century |
| dc.title | Don Quixote. English |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 2013210 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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1615
DON QUIXOTE
by Miguel de Cervantes
Translated by John Ormsby
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION
IT WAS with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favour of
the present undertaking what had long been a favourite project: that
of a new edition of Shelton's "Don Quixote," which has now become a
somewhat scarce book. There are some- and I confess myself to be
one- for whom Shelton's racy old version, with all its defects, has
a charm that no modern translation, however skilful or correct,
could possess. Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to
the same generation as Cervantes; "Don Quixote" had to him a
vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no
dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no
anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into
the English of Shakespeare. S . . .
