The Mirror of the Worlde Lady 1st Edition by Elizabeth Cary, Lesley Peterson ISBN 978-0773540729 0773540725
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ISBN 10: 0773540725
ISBN 13: 978-0773540729
Author: Elizabeth Cary, Lesley Peterson
The Mirror of the Worlde is an important addition to the canon of Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. Best known for her play The Tragedy of Mariam, Cary is revealed here as a sheltered but precocious child who translated the texts accompanying the maps in an early modern atlas when she was no more than twelve. This book identifies the source text and makes widely available for the first time the full transcription of Elizabeth Cary’s manuscript translation of L’Epitome du Théâtre du Monde d’Abraham Ortelius (c. 1588). Dedicated to her mother’s well-connected aristocratic uncle, Sir Henry Lee, The Mirror of the Worlde – one of the first known English versions of Ortelius – is a rich source of information about her childhood and education, the writers who influenced her, and the emerging themes and preoccupations that would come to inform her later work. Peterson’s critical edition illuminates the strategies by which this savvy young writer finds means to comment on the atlas’ descriptions, reveals an active and original authorial presence, and suggests a much earlier interest in Catholicism than biographers have hitherto considered. An impressive work of apprenticeship, The Mirror of the Worlde shows Cary honing her poetic craft, mastering the rhetoric of polite resistance, and, above all, thinking critically about the place of women in the wide, wonderful, and often violent world that Ortelius depicted.
Table of contents:
Introduction
The Mirror of the Worlde is a lengthy work of translation… covering maps in an atlas of the world, translated likely by a woman—an unusual case in 16th-century England.
Note on the Text
The Mirror of the Worlde exists in a single manuscript copy… now housed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
The Mirror of the Worlde (Text and Annotations)
A full transcription and annotated presentation of the translated atlas, introduced with a personal dedication and covering various global descriptions.
Appendix A: Summary of all French Editions of Ortelius Printed by 1602
A concise summary of known French printings of Ortelius’s works before 1602.
Appendix B: Comparison of the Contents of The Mirror of the Worlde with the Contents of the 1590 Epitome and the 1598 Miroir
A comparative overview showing textual similarities and differences across editions.
Appendix C: Complete Text of L’Epitome’s Descriptions of “Lucembourg” and “Haynault”
Full reproduction of two specific regional descriptions from L’Epitome for close comparison.
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