The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English LiteratureHarris, William James
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The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature
Harris, William James
Literature -- Translations into English -- Bibliography
[*] These appeared originally under the name of her brother, G.
de Scudery.
ARTAMENES; or, THE GRAND CYRUS. _Tr._ by F. G. 5 vols. 1653-5.
CLEILA. (1654-60.) _Tr._ by John Davies. 5 v. 1656-61.
IBRAHIM; or, THE ILLUSTRIOUS BASSA. (1641.) _Tr._ by Henry Cogan,
1652.
The interminable pseudo-romantic stories of M. de S.--the
'Grand Cyrus' or 'Clélie'--were exploited by Robert Boyle (Earl
of Surrey), Sir Geo. Mackenzie, J. Crowne the dramatist, etc.,
as well as by Dryden and other post-Restoration dramatists.
=SENECA, LUCIUS ANNÆUS.= _b._ 4 B.C., _d._ 65 A.D. =Roman stoic
philosopher and dramatist.=
THE EYGHT TRAGEDIES ... Entituled Agamemnon. _Tr._ by J. Studley,
1566.
THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDIE OF ŒDIPUS. _Tr._ by A. Nevyle. [In verse.]
1563.
MORALS. _Tr._ by T. Lodge, 1614.
THE REMEDYES AGAYNST ALL CASUALL CHAUNCES ... A dialogue between
Sensualyte and Reason. _Tr._ by E. Wyttynton, 1547.
THE SECONDE TRAGEDIE OF SENECA ENTITLED THYESTES. _Tr._ by J.
Heywood. [In verse.] 1560.
THE SEVENTH TRAGEDY OF S., ENTITLED MEDIA: _Tr._ by J. Studley, 1566.
THE SIXT TRAGEDY OF L. A. S. ENTITULED TROAS [ ... In Verse]. _Tr._
by J. Heywood, 1559.
SENECA, HIS TENNE TRAGEDIES. _Tr._ into English. [Hercules Furens,
Thyestes, and Troas.] _Tr._ by J. Heywood; Œdipus, by A. Nevile;
Hippolytus, Medea, Agamemnon and Hercules Oetaeus by J. Studley;
Octavia by T. Nuce and Thebais by T. Newton, 1581.
THE WORKS OF L. A. SENECA, CONCERNING BENFYTING, THAT IS TO SAY, THE
DOING, RECYVING AND REQUYTING OF GOOD TURNES. _Tr._ by A. Golding,
1578.
_Supposititious Works._
THE FORME AND RULE OF HONEST LYVYNGE. _Tr._ by R. Whyttynton, 1546.
MYROUR OF GLASSE OF MANERS AND WYSEDOME. _Tr._ by R. Whyttynton, 1547.
OCTAVIA. _Tr._ by T. Nuce, 1566.
Addison's 'Cato' was largely influenced through French sources
by Seneca.
Sackville sought for tragic models in Seneca.
Seneca had great influence on Early Elizabethan drama. The best
imitation of his style is Addison's 'Cato'.
Seneca's rhetorical plays were the model for the early
Elizabethan dramatists, but Shakespearean superseded this
influence.
=SERVIAN ANTHOLOGIES.= _See_ =Anthologies, General=.
=SEVYN SAGES OF ROME.= (Collection of Tales). _Cir._ 1300.
_Ed._ Wright, Percy Soc. 1846. Weber, Metrical Romances, 1810.
THE SEVIN SEAGES, translatit out of Prois in Scottis Meter be John
Rolland, 1578.
=SÉVIGNÉ, MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL, MARQUISE DE.= _b._ 1626, _d._
1696. =French writer.=
COURT SECRETS ... extracted from the Letters of M. de S. _Tr._ 1727.
LETTERS FROM THE MARCHIONESS DE SÉVIGNÉ TO HER DAUGHTER, THE COUNTESS
DE GRIGNAN. (1st ed. 1726.) 10 vols. 1764.
M. de Sévigné has been pronounced the most admirable
letter-writer that ever lived. Her style has been largely
copied.
=SHI KING=: or, =BOOK OF ODES=. =Chinese.=
THE SHIH KING, or BOOK OF POETRY. (Told by J. Legge.) _The Sacred
Books of the East_, vol. 3, 1879.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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