Station 21 in the Don Quixote Exhibit

Don Quixote Exhibit - Station 21


   

The History of the Most Renown'd Don Quixote of Mancha, London, 1687.

From the Collection of the George Peabody Library


Other English translations began to compete, however, each one attempting to capture the flavor of the original in up-to-date language and style, while indirectly calling attention to the shortcomings of previous versions. The obscure John Phillips, nephew of the poet John Milton, published a new translation of Don Quixote in 1687, depending heavily on Shelton while appearing to distance himself from the earlier translator. On the title page he advertizes a new translation, "[n]ow made English according to the Humour of our Modern Language AND adorned with several copper plates."