Michael Andrew Screech

Michael Andrew Screech (2 May 1926 – 1 June 2018) was a cleric and a professor of French literature with special interests in the Renaissance, Montaigne and Rabelais.[1]

In the years 1971–84 he was the Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature, at the University College, University of London. From 2003 to 2018 he was an emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[2]

In 1992, he was honoured as a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor. His translation of Montaigne's Essays has been widely recognized.[3]

Selected publications

M. A. Screech as author

• The Rabelaisian Marriage (Edward Arnold, 1958)
• L'Evangélisme de Rabelais (Droz, 1959)
• Marot Evangélique (Droz, 1967)
• Erasmus: Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly (Duckworth, 1980)
• Montaigne and Melancholy (Duckworth, 1983)
• A New Rabelais Bibliography: Editions of Rabelais Before 1626 (Droz, 1987)
• Some Renaissance Studies (Droz, 1992)
• Clément Marot, a Renaissance poet discovers the Gospel (E. J. Brill, 1993)
• Laughter at the Foot of the Cross (Allen Lane/Penguin, 1997)

M. A. Screech as editor

• Joachim DuBellay, Les Regrets et autres Oeuvres Poétiques: suivis des Antiquitez de Rome ; plus Un songe, ou Vision sur le mesme subject (Droz, 1966). Joint editor: J. Joliffe.
• François Rabelais, Pantagrueline Prognostication pour l'an 1533. Avec les Almanachs pour les ans 1533, 1535 et 1541. La grande et vraye Pronostication nouvelle de 1544 (Droz, 1975)

Selected translations

• Montaigne: Essays (1991)
• Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel (2006)

References

1. The Rt Revd Lord Harries, Obituary: The Revd Professor Michael Screech, churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
2. Revd Dr Michael Screech, ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
3. Biography of Michael Andrew Screech, Debrett's

External links

• The Rev Professor Michael Screech obituary, The Times, 19 July 2018.