School of Critical Studies

Dr Stuart Gillespie

Reader in English Literature (English Literature)

telephone: 01413306370
email: Stuart.Gillespie@glasgow.ac.uk

Research interests

English Literary Translation
The Reception of Ancient Greek and Latin Literature within English Literature
Shakespeare

Biography

Stuart Gillespie’s core work has always been, and remains, interdisciplinary, especially as between Classics/English literature (reception, translation) and English/European literature (translation, comparative studies). Two recurrent points of departure for this work have been Shakespeare and the editing of manuscript translations. He has published on every period of English Literature from Chaucer to the late twentieth century, but is usually to be found somewhere between the start of the Renaissance and the end of the eighteenth century.

Stuart Gillespie was in 1992 founding editor of Translation and Literature (Edinburgh University Press), now the preeminent scholarly journal of literary translation in English. In 2000 he conceived and planned with Peter France the multi-volume Oxford History of Literary Translation in English (OUP, 2005-10), co-editing two of the volumes. A new series, Edinburgh Critical Studies in Literary Translation, has been appearing under his editorship (jointly with Emily Wilson) since 2015. It consists of monographs on translation as a literary and historical phenomenon; their subjects range, so far, from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

In Shakespeare Studies his large-scale reference text Shakespeare’s Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sources was first published in 2001, with a second edition in 2016. This was followed by the essay collection Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture (edited with Neil Rhodes for the Arden Shakespeare, 2006). He has published numerous independent articles and essays on individual aspects of Shakespeare’s reading and cultural context. He has lectured and has held a visiting fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.

In the field of classical reception he co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (with Philip Hardie, 2007). His many essay-length contributions in this field focus on English verse translation, especially from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century. He has conducted research on both sides of the Atlantic on manuscript English translations from ancient Greek and Latin literature, some of which is described in his monograph English Translation and Classical Reception: Towards a New Literary History (Wiley, 2011).

His most recent work has developed this research into a large-scale edited compilation of previously unknown translations found in extant manuscripts. These translations extend to a wide range of Greek and Latin verse (including drama). The hardback edition of Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800 (OUP, 2018) is augmented by a free-to-view online Annexe. Work on this collection was begun while he held a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and completed during his time as a Senior Research Fellow at the August-Herzog Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel.

Grants

2007 Research Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
2008 British Academy Travel Grant
2009 Research Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library
2010 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
2012 Visiting Fellowship, All Souls College, Oxford
2013 Visiting Scholarship, St John’s College, Oxford
2013 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
2014 Loeb Classical Library Foundation
2015 Royal Society of Edinburgh
2015 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust
2015 Senior Research Fellowship, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
2017 Loeb Classical Library Foundation

Supervision

Areas of postgraduate supervision are Shakespeare (especially sources, influences, and cultural context); English Literary Translation; Classical Reception in English; and English Poetry 1660-1790.

Research datasets

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2018

Gillespie, S. (2018) Newly Recovered English Classical Translations 1600-1800: Annexe. [Data Collection]

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Additional Information

Research Assessor, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
Editor, Translation and Literature
Joint General Editor, The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English
Judging Panel, John Dryden Translation Competition
Peer Review College Member, Arts & Humanities Research Council
Series Editor, Edinburgh Critical Studies in Literary Translation

Publications

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2019

Gillespie, S. (2019) Manuscript translations of Italian poetry, c.1650-1825: A miscellany. Translation and Literature, 28(1), pp. 44-67. (doi:10.3366/tal.2019.0369)

2018

Gillespie, S. (2018) An unrecorded critical response to Pope’s Imitations of Horace by William Popple, c. 1755. Translation and Literature, 27(3), pp. 319-346. (doi:10.3366/tal.2018.0354)

Gillespie, S. (2018) Petronius on dreams: 300 years of English translations. Translation and Literature, 27(2), pp. 195-222. (doi:10.3366/tal.2018.0338)

Gillespie, S. (2018) ‘Horace’s Letter of Invitation’: A newly discovered Horatian imitation by Allan Ramsay. Scottish Literary Review, 10(1), pp. 159-168.

Gillespie, S. (Ed.) (2018) Newly Recovered English Classical Translations 1600-1800. Series: Classical presences. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198705574

Gillespie, S. (2018) Newly Recovered English Classical Translations 1600-1800: Annexe. [Website]

2017

Gillespie, S. (2017) Five unknown English translations of poems by George Buchanan, c. 1670. Translation and Literature, 26(3), pp. 317-326. (doi:10.3366/tal.2017.0303)

Gillespie, S. (2017) Warren Hastings as a translator of Latin poetry. Translation and Literature, 26(2), pp. 199-213. (doi:10.3366/tal.2017.0289)

Gillespie, S. (2017) De Rosis Nascentibus in English from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century: a collection of translations. Translation and Literature, 26(1), pp. 73-94. (doi:10.3366/tal.2017.0276)

2016

Gillespie, S. and Pelling, C. (2016) The Greek translations of Francis Hickes (1565/6-1631). Translation and Literature, 25(3), pp. 315-338. (doi:10.3366/tal.2016.0261)

Gillespie, S. (2016) Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources [2nd ed.]. Series: Arden Shakespeare dictionary series. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare. ISBN 9781472572929

Gillespie, S. (2016) Shakespeare’s European sources: epics, essays, romances, novellas. French Studies Library Group Annual Review, 11-12, pp. 49-52.

2015

Gillespie, S. (2015) Translation and commentary: Pope’s Iliad. In: Kraus, C. S. and Stray, C. (eds.) Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 299-317. ISBN 9780199688982

Gillespie, S. (2015) An unknown English translation of Virgil's Third Georgic (c.1800). Translation and Literature, 24(3), pp. 319-340. (doi:10.3366/tal.2015.0220)

Gillespie, S. (2015) The classics in translation, publication, and performance. In: Cheney, P. and Hardie, P. (eds.) The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Vol. 2: The Renaissance. Oxford University Press, pp. 57-74. ISBN 9780199547555

Gillespie, S. (2015) Seneca ex Thyestes: a collection of English translations 1557–1800. Translation and Literature, 24(2), pp. 203-218. (doi:10.3366/tal.2015.0202)

Gillespie, S. (2015) Martial's Epigram 10.47: thirty-nine English translations to 1750. Translation and Literature, 24(1), pp. 57-85. (doi:10.3366/tal.2015.0184)

Gillespie, S. (2015) Venus in Cypresse sheets: John Evelyn’s occasional poems and translations. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 14-15.

2014

Gillespie, S. (2014) Sir John Heath's translation of Martial. Notes and Queries, 61(3), pp. 355-357. (doi:10.1093/notesj/gju087)

Gillespie, S. (2014) English Juvenal translations in Bodleian library manuscripts. Classical Receptions Journal, 6(1), pp. 22-47. (doi:10.1093/crj/clt007)

2013

Gillespie, S. (2013) German translations of Scottish literature: the bibliography of Scottish literature in translation as a research tool. In: Muller, K.P., Reiz, B. and Rieuwerts, S. (eds.) Scotland’s Cultural Standing and Identity. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag: Trier. ISBN 9783868215014

Gillespie, S. (2013) Lucretius' Renaissance. Renaissance Studies, 27(5), pp. 765-769. (doi:10.1111/rest.12019)

2012

Gillespie, S. (2012) Two seventeenth-century translations of two dark Roman satires: John Knyvett’s Juvenal 1 and J.H.’s In Eutropium 1. Translation and Literature, 21(1), pp. 43-66. (doi:10.3366/tal.2012.0046)

Gillespie, S. (2012) Imperial satire in the English Renaissance. In: Braund, S. and Osgood, J. (eds.) A Companion to Persius and Juvenal. Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, MA, pp. 386-408. ISBN 9781405199650

Gillespie, S. (2012) Literary history and critical historicism: reading Wordsworth's Juvenal. In: Saunders, T. (ed.) Romans and Romantics. Series: Classical presences. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 127-144. ISBN 9780199588541

2011

Gillespie, S. (2011) English Translation and Classical Reception: Towards a New Literary History. Series: Classical receptions. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, MA. ISBN 9781405199018

Gillespie, S. (2011) Gilbert Talbot's seventeenth-century translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata. Translation and Literature, 20(2), pp. 191-217. (doi:10.3366/tal.2011.0018)

Gillespie, S. (2011) Homer in English translation in the 16th-19th centuries. In: Kittel, H. [e. a.], i. V. m., House, J. and Schultze, B. (eds.) Übersetzung : ein internationales Handbuch zur Übersetzungsforschung = Translation : an international encyclopedia of translation studies = Traduction : encyclopédie internationale de la recherche sur la traduction. Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikations-wissenschaft, 3 (26.3). Walter de Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 2428-2432. ISBN 9783110171464

2010

Braden, G., Cummings, R. and Gillespie, S. (Eds.) (2010) The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Vol. 2, 1550-1660. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199246212

Gillespie, S. (2010) Edward Homer. In: Fehrenbach, R. J. and Black, J. L. (eds.) Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Catalogue of Tudor and Stuart Book-Lists Vol 7. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies & Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies.: Tempe, AZ, pp. 211-224. ISBN 9780866984188

Gillespie, S. (2010) George Chapman. In: Braden, G., Cummings, R. and Gillespie, S. (eds.) The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Vol. 2, 1550-1660. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 69-73. ISBN 9780199246212

Gillespie, S. (2010) Literary afterlives: metempsychosis from Ennius to Jorge Luis Borges. In: Hardie, P. and Moore, H. (eds.) Classical Literary Careers and their Reception. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 209-225. ISBN 9780521762977

Gillespie, S. (2010) Richard Lewis. In: Fehrenbach, R. J. and Black, J. L. (eds.) Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Catalogue of Tudor and Stuart Book-Lists Vol. 7. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies & Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies: Tempe, AZ, pp. 1-9. ISBN 9780866984188

Gillespie, S. (2010) Thomas Stanley. In: Braden, G., Cummings, R. and Gillespie, S. (eds.) The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Vol. 2, 1550-1660. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 78-82. ISBN 9780199246212

Gillespie, S. (2010) Translation. In: Grafton, A., Most, G. W. and Settis, S. (eds.) The Classical Tradition. Series: Harvard University Press reference library. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, pp. 948-953. ISBN 9780674035720

2009

Cummings, R. and Gillespie, S. (2009) Translations from Greek and Latin classics, Part 1: 1550–1700: a revised bibliography. Translation and Literature, 18(1), pp. 1-42. (doi:10.3366/E0968136108000538)

Gillespie, S. (2009) Hughes’s First translation: The Storm from Homer, "Odyssey", Book V. In: Rees, R. (ed.) Ted Hughes and the Classics. Series: Classical presences. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 25-38. ISBN 9780199229710

Gillespie, S. (2009) Translations from Greek and Latin classics, Part 2: 1701–1800: a revised bibliography. Translation and Literature, 18(2), pp. 181-224. (doi:10.3366/E0968136109000557)

2008

Gillespie, S. (2008) William Barnes' rhythmical versions of the Psalms. Translation and Literature, 17(1), pp. 70-84. (doi:10.3366/E0968136108000071)

Gillespie, S. and Hopkins, D.(Eds.) (2008) The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies, 1684-1709. [Scholarly Editions]

Gillespie, S. (2008) Hesiod goes Augustan: an early English translation of the Theogony. Translation and Literature, 17(2), pp. 197-209. (doi:10.3366/E0968136108000228)

Gillespie, S. (2008) Translation and Literature [editor. 2008 and ongoing]. Translation and Literature,

2007

Gillespie, S. (2007) A new eighteenth-century writer at the Beinecke: the poems and translations of Arthur Freeman. Yale University Library Gazette, 82(1-2), pp. 55-86.

Gillespie, S. and Hardie, P. (Eds.) (2007) The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521612661

Gillespie, S. (2007) Ember's "Index by First Lines to a Verse Anthology" in Bend Sinister. Nabokovian, 59, pp. 9-14.

Gillespie, S. (2007) An English version of Horace's Odes, Satires, and Epistles by William Popple (1700–1764). Translation and Literature, 16(2), pp. 205-235. (doi:10.3366/tal.2007.0025)

Gillespie, S. (2007) Lucretius in the English Renaissance. In: Gillespie, S. and Hardie, P. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 242-253. ISBN 9780521612661

Gillespie, S. (2007) Persius' First Satire Englished: from an early Eighteenth-Century manuscript. Translation and Literature, 16(1), pp. 76-83. (doi:10.3366/tal.2007.0006)

Gillespie, S. (2007) Vernacular translations of classical and neo-latin writings in the European renaissance: the Germanic languages. In: Kittel, H. (ed.) Übersetzung: ein internationales Handbuch zur Übersetzungsforschung. T. 2 = Translation : An International Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, Vol. 2. Series: Handbucher zur Sprach-und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 2 (26.2). Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 1441-1447. ISBN 9783110171457

Gillespie, S. and Hardie, P. (2007) Introduction. In: Gillespie, S. and Hardie, P. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9780521612661

Gillespie, S. and Mackenzie, D. (2007) Lucretius and the moderns. In: Gillespie, S. and Hardie, P. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 306-324. ISBN 9780521612661

2006

Gillespie, S. and Rhodes, N. (Eds.) (2006) Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture. Series: The Arden critical companions. Arden Shakespeare: London, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781904271680

Gillespie, S. (2006) Greek and Latin prose excluding philosophy. In: France, P. and Haynes, K. (eds.) The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English : Vol. 4, 1790-1900. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 200-207. ISBN 9780199246236

Gillespie, S. (2006) Shakespeare and popular song. In: Gillespie, S. and Rhodes, N. (eds.) Shakepeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture. Series: The Arden critical companions. Arden Shakespeare: London, pp. 174-192. ISBN 9781904271680

Gillespie, S. (2006) A new eighteenth-century Juvenal translator: William Popple's Satires VI and X. Translation and Literature, 15(1), pp. 47-96. (doi:10.3366/tal.2006.0004)

Gillespie, S. and Rhodes, N. (2006) Introduction. In: Gillespie, S. and Rhodes, N. (eds.) Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture. Series: The Arden critical companions. Arden Shakespeare: London, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781904271680

2005

Gillespie, S.F. and Hopkins, D. eds. (2005) The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Vol. 3, 1660-1790. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199246229

Gillespie, S. (2005) Translation and canon-formation. In: Gillespie, S. and Hopkins, D. (eds.) The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: Vol. 3, 1660-1790. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 7-20. ISBN 9780199246229

Gillespie, S. (2005) The developing corpus of literary translation. In: Gillespie, S. and Hopkins, D. (eds.) The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: Vol. 3, 1660-1790. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199246229

Gillespie, S. and Sowerby, R. (2005) Translation and literary innovation. In: Gillespie, S. and Hopkins, D. (eds.) The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Vol. 3, 1660-1790. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 21-37. ISBN 9780199246229

Gillespie, S. and Wilson, P. (2005) The publishing and readership of translation. In: Gillespie, S. and Hopkins, D. (eds.) The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Vol. 3, 1660-1790. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 38-51. ISBN 9780199246229

2004

Gillespie, S. (2004) Dillon, Wentworth, fourth earl of Roscommon (1637–1685). In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 226-228. ISBN 019861411X (doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7667)

Gillespie, S. (2004) George Chapman. In: Todd, R. B. (ed.) The Dictionary of British Classicists. Thoemmes Continuum: Bristol, pp. 169-171. ISBN 1855069970

Gillespie, S. (2004) Leapor, Mary (1722–1746). In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 993-994. ISBN 0198613822 (doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16246)

Gillespie, S. (2004) Leighton, Alexander (1800–1874). In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B. (eds.) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 254-255. ISBN 0198613830 (doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16396)

Gillespie, S. (2004) Percy, Thomas (1768–1808). In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B. (eds.) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 750-751. ISBN 0198613938 (doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21958)

Gillespie, S. (2004) Shakespeare and Greek romance: 'Like an old tale still'. In: Martindale, C. and Taylor, A.B. (eds.) Shakespeare and the Classics. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 225-237. ISBN 9780521823456

Gillespie, S. (2004) Shakespeare's reading of modern European literature. In: Hadfield, A. and Hammond, P. (eds.) Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe. Series: The Arden critical companions. Arden Shakespeare/Thomson Learning: London, pp. 98-122. ISBN 9781904271468

Gillespie, S. (2004) Thomas Lodge. In: Todd, R. B. (ed.) The Dictionary of British Classicists. Thoemmes Continuum: Bristol, pp. 588-589. ISBN 9781855069978

2002

Gillespie, S. (2002) The Anacreontea in English: a checklist of translations to 1900 with a bibliography of secondary sources and some previously unpublished translations. Translation and Literature, 11, pp. 149-173. (doi:10.3366/tal.2002.11.2.149)

2001

Gillespie, S. (Ed.) (2001) John Dryden, Classicist and Translator. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748615308

Gillespie, S. (2001) Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources. Series: Athlone Shakespeare dictionary series. Athlone Press: London ; New Brunswick, NJ. ISBN 0826477755

1999

Gillespie, S. (1999) Statius in English, 1648-1767. Translation and Literature, 8(2), pp. 157-175.

1996

Gillespie, S. (1996) Another Pindaric ode 'To the Pious Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew'. Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, 20(1), pp. 31-35.

1994

Gillespie, S. (1994) William Brown. Scholar (M.A.): Probate inventory. 1558. In: Fehrenbach, R.J. and Leedham-Green, E.S. (eds.) Private Libraries in Renaissance England : a Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-lists Vol. 3. Adam Matthew Publications / Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies: Marlborough, pp. 1-35. ISBN 9780866981705

1993

Gillespie, S. (1993) Horace's ode 3.29: Dryden's 'Masterpiece in English'. In: Martindale, C. and Hopkins, D. (eds.) Horace Made New: Horatian Influences on British Writing from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 148-158. ISBN 9780521380195

1992

Gillespie, S. (1992) A checklist of Restoration English translations and adaptations of classical Greek and Latin poetry, 1660–1700. Translation and Literature, 1, pp. 52-67. (doi:10.3366/tal.1992.1.1.52)

1990

Gillespie, S. (1990) Dryden's second poem on the Royal Wedding of 1683? Review of English Studies, 41(163), pp. 365-369.

Gillespie, S. (1990) 'The worst inn's worst room’: Pope's setting for Buckingham's death. Notes and Queries, 37(3), pp. 306-308. (doi:10.1093/nq/37.3.306)

1988

Gillespie, S. (Ed.) (1988) The Poets on Classics: An Anthology of English Poets' Writings on the Classical Poets and Dramatists from Chaucer to the Present. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 0415003288

Gillespie, S. (1988) The early years of the Dryden-Tonson partnership: the background to their composite translations and miscellanies of the early 1680s. Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, 12(1), pp. 10-19.