The first great English translation was the Wycliffe Bible (ca. 1382), which showed the weaknesses of an underdeveloped English prose. Only at the end of the 15th century did the great age of English prose translation begin with Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur—an adaptation of Arthurian romances so free that it can, in fact, hardly be called a true translation. The first great Tudor translations are, accordingly, the Tyndale New Testament (1525), which influenced the Authorized Version (1611), and Lord Berners' version of Jean Froissart's Chronicles (1523–25).
What adaptation of Arthurian romances took so many liberties with the source material that it could hardly be called a translation?
Le Morte Darthur
Only at the end of the 15th century did the great age of English prose translation begin with Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur—an adaptation of Arthurian romances so free that it can, in fact, hardly be called a true translation.
Only at the end of the fifteenth century did the great age of English prose translation begin with Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur--an adaptation of Arthurian romances so free that it can, in fact, hardly be called a true translation.
What adaptation of Arthurian romances took so many liberties with the source material that it could hardly be called a translation?