Note 716 — Chapter IV · SENECAN SATIRE AND POETRY: DRAMA OF THE AGE
Reading edition
Tragedies: ed. pr., Ferrara, c. 1481; Lipsius, Leid., 1588; Gruter, Heidelb., 1604; Gronov, Leid., 1661; Pierrot, Par., 1829-1832; Peiper and Richter, Leipz., 1867 (influenced by erroneous belief in strophic arrangement); improved ed., Richter, Leipz., 1902; Leo, Berl., 1878-1879 (vol. i., Obseruationes criticae, pp. 232, vol. ii., Tragoediae); Miller (Loeb ed. w. prose trans.), 2 vols., 1916-1917.
Trans.: Heywood and others, Lond., 1581; Harris (verse), Lond., 1904; Miller (blank verse and lyric metres), Chicago, 1907.
Dramatic influence: Cunliffe, Influence of S. on Elizab. Tragedy, Manch., 1893; Vaughan, Types of Tragic Drama, Lond., 1908; Spearing, Eliz. Transns. of S.’s Tragedies, Camb., 1912; Godley, Senecan Tragedy in Eng. Lit. and Classics, Oxf., 1912; Kastner and Charlton, Growth of Senecan Tradition in Renaiss. Trag., introd. to Poet. Works of Sir W. Alexander, Lond., 1921; Lucas, S. and Eliz. Tragedy, Camb., 1922; Jourdain, Drama in Europe, Lond., 1924.