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Alexander Barclay

Alexander Barclay (1474 – 1552)

  1. Poet and priest, a Scotsman
  2. Works:
    1. Translation of Pierre Gringore’s Le chastaeau de labour, Published by Antonie Verard, reprinted by Pynson (c.1505) and Wynkyn de Worde (1506 and 1510)
    2. The Ship of Fools (1509)
      1. An adaptation of a popular German Satire, Das Narrenschiff, by Sebastian Brant.
      2. It looks forward to Erasmus’ Praise of Folly.
      3. Story:

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