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Jasper Heywood (
1535 –
January 9,
1598), son of
John Heywood, translated into English three plays of
Seneca, the
Troas (1559), the
Thyestes (1560) and
Hercules Furens (1561).
He was a fellow of
Merton College, Oxford, but was compelled to resign from that society in
1558. In the same year he was elected a fellow of
All Souls College, but, refusing to conform to the changes in religion at the beginning of the reign of
Elizabeth I, he gave up his fellowship and went to
Rome where he was received into the
Society of Jesus.
For seventeen years he was professor of moral
theology and controversy in the Jesuit College at
Dillingen,
Bavaria. In
1581 he was sent to
England as superior of the Jesuit mission, but his leniency in that position led to his recall.
On his way back to the Continent, a violent storm drove him back to the English coast. He was arrested on the charge of being a priest, but, although extraordinary efforts were made to induce him to abjure his opinions, he remained firm. He was condemned to perpetual exile on pain of death, and died at
Naples on the 9th of January 1598.
His translations of Seneca were supplemented by other plays contributed by
Alexander Neville,
Thomas Nuce,
John Studley and
Thomas Newton. Newton collected these translations in one volume,
Seneca, his tenne tragedies translated into Englysh (1581). The importance of this work in the development of English drama can hardly be over-estimated.
His nephew was the poet and preacher
John Donne.
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