Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Hippolytus (Seneca's Fourth Tragedy)

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus / Studley, John, published 1581 · tragedy · Translation;Nonprofessional;Closet/Unacted

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TitleHippolytus (Seneca's Fourth Tragedy)
AuthorSeneca, Lucius Annaeus / Studley, John
Publication year (edition)1581
Genre (British Drama)tragedy
Genre group (comparison)tragedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: tragedy
Play typeTranslation;Nonprofessional;Closet/Unacted
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 80 · edition 133 · TCP A11909 · DEEP 5015.04
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1567
First performance (BritDrama)1567 [Jan]
FormatQuarto
Greg80a
Genre (Annals)Tragedy
Genre (BritDrama)Tragedy
BritDrama no.442
Title page[HT; H7r] THE FOVRTH, AND MOST RVTHFVL TRAGEDY ... ENtituled HIPPOLYTVS,
Corpus buildcorpus-v3-2026-09-08 · nodes 1524 · witness single

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10–49482unassignedGo range about the shady Woods, beset on every side With Nets, with Hounds, & toils, & running out at random r…
250–99474unassignedThou standing at receipt shalt chase the awayne. With hallowing: thou with limere sharp undee him being slain.…
3100–145476unassignedNo silent night, nor slumber deep can set my heart at rest. My sorrow still is nourished, and still entreaseth…
4146–195521unassignedThe first redress is to withstand, not willingly to slide, The second is to have the fault by mean and measure…
5196–247536T21 Cupid, Venus and the nymphs0.80I know the truth ye teach O Nurse, but fury forceth me at worser things to reach: My mind even wittingly to vi…
6248–303497unassignedYet do not thou suppose, Though dreadful Ditis' lock with bars, and bolt his dungeon close: And though the hid…
7304–367503T24 Apollo, Phoebus and the Muses0.83Now strengthen we our hand, Alas shall not my feeble age thy desperate death withstand, Forbear the sway of fu…
8368–432500unassignedWith forward glancing breast the stream he broke, And lest he should his tender prey have lost, Her troublous …
9433–486558T38 Death, parting and grief at court0.75To cure this puissant breach of ills no hope there is in us: Nor yet to quench his flashing flame: his furies …
10487–533504unassignedLeave of thy bitter languishing unto the silly sort (That walter thus in waves of woe) grief gives not testing…
11534–582515unassignedBe blithe my Boy, why Widow like liest thou alone by night? Shake of thy solemn sadness man that hearty youth …
12583–629509unassignedThe poise of Sceptre proud: but wields the massy sceptre sway, At ebbing honours gapes he not, nor moils for f…
13630–677509unassignedNor soil with yoked Ox was strained to bear the eueting share, The field even fertile of itself did feed the W…
14678–728510unassignedeven as the stiff and sturdy Rocks have waltering waves withstood, And dasheth back from shore aloof the foamy…
15729–777504unassignedThe God that reigns aloft, forbid such luckless lot to light. My Father Theseus safe in health will straight r…
16778–826510T36 Hell, Furies and the language of punishm0.82My Sister Ariadne would, for thee have spun the thread. Therewith in crafty compassed Maze to lead thee to and…
17827–871481unassignedAnd I do know, what uncouth luck upon our stock hath light, The thing that we should shun, we seek, it is not …
18872–923509T24 Apollo, Phoebus and the Muses0.65HIPPOLYTUS even as the raging storm away doth fly, More swift than whirling Western wind uptumbling clouds in …
19924–971519T24 Apollo, Phoebus and the Muses0.74On thee that next old Arcades in heaven thy seat haste took, She could not wield her weltering wain, and yet n…
20972–1023475unassignedAT length I scaped the glowing glades of grim eternal Night, And eke the underpropping pole, that each inferna…
211024–1073486unassignedNo worldly wight (save I myself alone) the same shall hear, Art thou afraid to tell it in thy husbands bashful…
221074–1120486unassignedThis frantic fury up and down comes of the warlike Dames, To hate the loyal leagues of love, and shunning long…
231121–1177479unassignedLet never more Hippolytus behold th'eclipsed light, And for the Father's wrathful rage the cursed child down s…
241178–1227484unassignedO Heavy hap and cruel chance of Servants slavish state, Why am I Post to bring the news of this ill-favoured f…
251228–1275514unassignedA boasting Bull, his marble neck advanced high that bore, Upraised his lofty bristled Main on curled forehead …
261276–1322518unassignedThy Son flat falling on his Face, his body fast was bound, Entangled in the winding ropes, the more he strives…
271323–1386512T36 Hell, Furies and the language of punishm0.84If still thou keep thy grudge, why is the Face with seats besprent? Because I slew him, not because I lost him…
281387–1430505T36 Hell, Furies and the language of punishm0.83Or else what Minotaur of Crete that grim twi-shaped Bull With horny head (that Dedalls ues with loing sleth Ha…
291431–1477501unassignedWhich I of spite imagined, when raging breast did swerve. Thou father falsely punished hast him that did not d…
301478–1523507unassignedThat whirleth still enforce my limbs thy swinging swift to feel. Gape, gape, thou ground and swallow me thou c…