SENECAN TRANSLATIONS (1559-81).
Troas (Jasper Heywood)
S. R. 1558-9. 'A treates of Senaca.' Richard Tottel (Arber, i. 96).
1559. The Sixt Tragedie of the most graue and prudent author Lucius, Anneus, Seneca, entituled Troas, with diuers and sundrye addicions to the same. Newly set forth in Englishe by Iasper Heywood studient in Oxenforde. Richard Tottel. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. [Epistle to Elizabeth by Heywood; Preface to the Readers; Preface to the Tragedy.]
1559. Richard Tottel. [Another edition (B. M. G. 9440).]
N.D. [c. 1560]. Thomas Powell for George Bucke.
Thyestes (Jasper Heywood)
1560, March 26. The seconde Tragedie of Seneca entituled Thyestes faithfully Englished by Iasper Heywood, fellow of Alsolne College in Oxforde. [Thomas Powell?] in the hous late Thomas Berthelettes. [Verse Epistle to Sir John Mason by Heywood; The Translator to the Book; Preface.]
Hercules Furens (Jasper Heywood)
1561. Lucii Annei Senecae Tragedia prima quae inscribitur Hercules furens. . . . The first Tragedie of Lucius Anneus Seneca, intituled Hercules furens, newly pervsed and of all faultes whereof it did before abound diligently corrected, and for the profit of young schollers so faithfully translated into English metre, that ye may se verse for verse tourned as farre as the phrase of the english permitteth By Iasper Heywood studient in Oxford. Henry Sutton. [Epistle to William, Earl of Pembroke, by Heywood; Argument; Latin and English texts.]
Oedipus (Alexander Neville)
S. R. 1562-3. 'A boke intituled the lamentable history of the prynnce Oedypus &c.' Thomas Colwell (Arber, i. 209).
1563, April 28. The Lamentable Tragedie of Oedipus the Sonne of Laius Kyng of Thebes out of Seneca. By Alexander Neuyle. Thomas Colwell. [Epistles to Nicholas Wotton by Neville, and to the Reader.]
Agamemnon (John Studley)
S. R. 1565-6. 'A boke intituled the eighte Tragide of Senyca.' Thomas Colwell (Arber, i. 304).
1566. The Eyght Tragedie of Seneca. Entituled Agamemnon. Translated out of Latin into English, by Iohn Studley, Student in Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge. Thomas Colwell. [Commendatory Verses by Thomas Nuce, William R., H. C., Thomas Delapeend, W. Parkar, T. B.; Epistle to Sir William Cecil, signed 'Iohn Studley'; Preface to the Reader.]
