Geoffrey Brereton

Geoffrey Brereton (1906 – 1979) was a scholar and critic of French literature and Spanish literature.

Education Geoffrey Brereton studied French and Spanish at Oxford University and took a doctorate thesis in Paris on José de Espronceda. French Tragic Drama in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, London: Methuen, 1973 (University Paperbacks, 498) French Comic Drama from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, London: Methuen, 1977 (University Paperbacks, 607)

As an editor The Penguin Book of French Verse, 2: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1954 (Penguin Poets, D43) La Putain Respecteuse & Le Diable et le Bon Dieu, Jean-Paul Sartre, Penguin, London, 1965 Les Mains Sales, Jean-Paul Sartre, Methuen & Co., London, 1966

As a translator Jean Froissart, Chronicles, Baltimore: Penguin, 1968 (Penguin Classics, L200) Charles Perrault, Fairy Tales, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1957 (Penguin Classics, L69)