This essay explores the text of Lady Jane Lumley’s Tudor translation of Iphigeneia at Aulis in an attempt to see the mind of an erudite, privileged young woman at work. By braiding domestic and political contexts in Lumley’s adroitly oblique allusions to her time, it attends to her interest in the moral issues of government and authority. The translation subtly subverts commonplaces about a woman’s negligible worth.

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Original publication: Demers, Patricia. "On First Looking into Lumley's Euripides." Renaissance and Reformation 35 (1): 2010. 25-42. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v35i1.10678. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.