The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics / A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

by William James Harris

HERACLIUS, EMPEROUR OF THE EAST. Tr. by L. Carlell, 1664.

HORATIUS: a Roman Tragedy. Tr. by Wm. Lower, 1656.

THE LABYRINTH, OR THE FATAL EMBARRASSMENT. Tr. 1776.

MAXIMIAN. Tr. by Lady S. Burrell, 1800.

MELITE (1629). 1776.

NICOMEDE. (1653.) Tr. by John Dancer, 1671.

POMPEY. Tr. by Mrs. C. Philips, 1663.

RODOGUNE, or THE RIVAL BROTHERS (1646). Tr. (by Sampson Aspinall), 1765.

The French declamatory tragedy of Corneille takes as its type the drama of Seneca. The works of C. influenced the post-Restoration dramatists.

COSTES, GAUTIER DE, SEIGNEUR DE LA CALPRENÈDE. b. 1616 (?), d. 1680 (?). French writer of fiction.