The Massacre at Paris was a play by the translator who was active in what era?
The Massacre at Paris The Massacre at Paris is an Elizabethan play by the English dramatist Christopher Marlowe (1593) and a Restoration drama by Nathaniel Lee (1689), the later chiefly remembered for a song by Henry Purcell. Both concern the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which took place in Paris in 1572, and the part played by the Duc de Guise in those events.
Yves Bonnefoy Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923 – 1 July 2016) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was professor at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1993 and is the author of several works on art, art history, and artists including Miró and Giacometti. "The Encyclopædia Britannica" states that Bonnefoy was ″perhaps the most important French poet of the latter half of the 20th century.″