(In)Decorous Mirth: Phillips’s 1687 Translation of Don Quijote and the Social Function of Humor
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https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2017.v0i21.3635Keywords:
Quijote, Translation, Cervantes, John Phillips, HumorAbstract
John Phillips’s translation of Don Quijote (1687) has been considered one of the worst translations of all time, certainly the worst of Cervantes’s work. However, an analysis of the Phillips translation in the context of late
seventeenth-century English culture reveals in Phillips’s work an insightful reading both of the original text and of his own context. Phillips’s text presents not merely a linguistic translation of the original work, but also a
translation of the literary mechanism of Cervantes’s text, by which Phillips reproduces the use of a literary work to indirectly critique contemporary discourse and social mores.
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