Samson, A;
(2019)
The Literary Glocal: Sir Walter Aston between Staffordshire and Madrid.
Huntington Library Quarterly: studies in English and American history and literature
, 82
(4)
pp. 597-617.
10.1353/hlq.2019.0025.
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Abstract
England's ambassador in Madrid from 1620 to 1624 and from 1635 to 1638, Sir Walter Aston was a fluent speaker of Castilian and convert to Catholicism. His interest in Spanish literary culture, in circulation of poetry in manuscript, and in translation played a key role in his negotiation of the religious and political differences that affected him and his circle personally and divided the state he served. The Astons' ambivalent position made them valuable intermediaries and at the same time vulnerably peripheral. Alexander Samson identifies a key performance witnessed by Aston in Spain on the eve of the Spanish match that is linked with a sonnet found in Secretary of State Edward Conway's papers and with the later translation by Aston's secretary, Sir Richard Fanshawe, of Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza's play Querer por sólo querer.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Literary Glocal: Sir Walter Aston between Staffordshire and Madrid |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1353/hlq.2019.0025 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2019.0025 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Walter Aston, Anglo–Spanish literary and cultural relations, English recusants, translation, Luis de Góngora, Spanish comedias |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10095826 |
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