N.D. The ninth Tragedie of Lucius Anneus Seneca called Octavia. Translated out of Latine into English, by T. N. Student in Cambridge. Henry Denham. [Epistles to Robert Earl of Leicester, signed ‘T. N.’, and to the Reader.]
This is B.M. C. 34, e. 48. C. Grabau in Sh.-Jahrbuch, xliii. 310, says that a copy in the Irish sale of 1906 was of an unknown edition, possibly of 1566.
Hippolytus (John Studley)
S. R. 1566–7. ‘The iiijth parte Seneca Workes.’ Henry Denham (Arber, i. 336).
31 Aug. 1579. Transfer from Denham to Richard Jones and John Charlwood (Arber, ii. 359).
The Ten Tragedies. 1581
S. R. 1580–1. ‘Senecas Tragedies in Englishe.’ Thomas Marsh (Arber, ii. 396).
1581. Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh. Thomas Marsh. [Epistle to Sir Thomas Heneage by Thomas Newton. Adds Thebais, by Thomas Newton, and, if not already printed, as S. R. entries in 1566–7 and 1570–1 suggest, Hercules Oetaeus and Hippolytus, by John Studley. The Oedipus of Neville is a revised text.]
Reprint of 1581 collection (1887, Spenser Soc.), and editions of Studley’s Agamemnon and Medea, by E. M. Spearing (1913, Materialien, xxxviii), and of Heywood’s Troas, Thyestes, and Hercules Furens, by H. de Vocht (1913, Materialien, xli).—Dissertations: J. W. Cunliffe, The Influence of S. on Elizabethan Tragedy (1893); E. Jockers, Die englischen S.-Übersetzer des 16. Jahrhunderts (1909, Strassburg diss.); E. M. Spearing, The Elizabethan ‘Tenne Tragedies of S.’ (1909, M. L. R. iv. 437), The Elizabethan Translation of S.’s Tragedies (1912), A. N.’s Oedipus (1920, M. L. R. xv. 359); F. L. Lucas, S. and Elizabethan Tragedy (1922).
Of the translators, Jasper Heywood (1535–98) became Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, in 1558. He was son of John Heywood the dramatist, and uncle of John Donne. In 1562 he became a Jesuit, and left England, to return as a missionary in 1581. He was imprisoned during 1583–5 and then expelled. John Studley (c. 1547–?) entered Trinity, Cambridge, in 1563 and became Fellow in 1567. Alexander Neville (1544–1614) took his B.A. in 1560 at Cambridge. He became secretary successively to Parker, Grindal, and Whitgift, archbishops of Canterbury, and produced other literary work, chiefly in Latin. Thomas Nuce (ob. 1617) was Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1562, and became Canon of Ely in 1585. Thomas Newton (c. 1542–1607) migrated in 1562 from Trinity, Oxford, to Queens’, Cambridge, but apparently returned to his original college later. About 1583 he became Rector of Little Ilford, Essex. He produced much unimportant verse and prose, in Latin and English, and was a friend of William Hunnis (q.v.).