The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics / A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

by William James Harris

THE WHOLE WORKS OF F. RABELAIS. Done out of French by Sir T. Urchard, Knight, Mr. Motteau, etc. 2 vols., 1708.

The precursor of Swift and Sterne, who imitated him.

'Rabelais is like no one else, but he contains elements which recall the broader, comic side of Shakespeare, and others which anticipate the scathing railleries of Swift. Sterne, apart from his natural affinities with the earlier ecclesiastic, draws upon him liberally'.

RACINE, JEAN. b. 1639, d. 1699. French dramatic poet.

ACHILLES; or IPHIGENIE IN AULIS. Tr. by Mr. Boyer, 1700.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT. (1665.) Tr. [by Ozell], 1714.

ANDROMACHE. A tragedy. (1667.) Tr. 1675.

ATHALIAH. A tragedy. Tr. by Wm. Duncombe, 1726.

BRITTANICUS. (1669.) Tr. [by Ozell], 1714.