Robert Braham (

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1555) was an English editor.

Works

In 1555, he edited ''The Auncient Historic and onely trewe and syncere Cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans … translated into Englyshe verse by J. Lydgate'', Thomas Marshe, London, 1555,

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. Lydgate's work had already appeared in print under the title of ''The hystory, sege, and dystruccyen of Troy'' (1513). Braham prefixes a preface of very high interest. He criticises adversely Caxton's uncritical ''Recueil des Histoires de Troye''; speaks in high praise of

William Thynne William Thynne (died 10 August 1546) was an English courtier and editor of Geoffrey Chaucer's works. Life Thynne's family bore the alternative surname of Botfield or Boteville, and he is sometimes called "Thynne ''alias'' Boteville". In 1524 he w ...

, who had recovered the works of

Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for '' The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He w ...

; and desired to emulate Thynne's example with respect to Lydgate. Braham condemns severely the carelessness of the printers of the first edition of Lydgate's ''Troy'', and charges them with a fatal ignorance of English. Braham's edition is a well-printed

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folio.

References

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