Note 498 — Chapter V
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Many important literary productions in different languages came into England through the medium of a French version—for instance, Plutarch, Amadis, the Politics of Aristotle. Cp. Upham, French Influence in English Literature, p. 13. The influence of Senecan tragedy reached England through the intermediary of the "French Seneca," Robert Garnier (Schelling, Elizabethan Drama, ii. pp. 5 sqq. and p. 512). In 1612 licence was granted N. Bulter to print an English translation from French of so popular a work as Ovid's Metamorphoses (Stationers' Register, iii. 489).