James Mabbe
James Mabbe or Mab (1572–1642) was an English scholar, translator, and poet, and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was involved in translations from Spanish, notably of the Picaresque novel by Mateo Alemán, Guzmán de Alfarache, in 1622. He also translated some of the Novelas ejemplares of Miguel de Cervantes and, in 1631, La Celestina, a 300-page play, or "novel in dialogue," by Fernando de Rojas, under the title The Spanish Bawd.
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James Mabbe
- Born
- 1572
- Died
- 1642
- Occupation
- linguist · translator · poet
- Languages
- Spanish
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Mabbe may also be the "I. M." who wrote the fourth commendatory verse to the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays (1623), given that his friend and colleague Leonard Digges wrote the third.
The recorded working language is Spanish. Employment is recorded with Magdalen College.
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James Mabbe, born in 1572 and died in 1642, is documented in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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- 1.F. E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564-1964, Baltimore, Penguin, 1964; p. 294.
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