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Hercules Oetaeus (Hercules on Mount Oeta) (Seneca's Tenth Tragedy)

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

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TitleHercules Oetaeus (Hercules on Mount Oeta) (Seneca's Tenth 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 81 · edition 134 · TCP A11909 · DEEP 5015.10
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1566
First performance (BritDrama)1566 [summer]
FormatQuarto
Greg81a
Genre (Annals)Tragedy
Genre (BritDrama)Tragedy
BritDrama no.426
Title page[HT; 2B5r] THE TENTH TRAGEDY ... Entituled HERCVLES OETÆVS:
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10–48497T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.82O Lord of Ghosts whose fiery flash (that forth thy hand doth shake) Doth cause the trembling Lodges twain of P…
249–93499unassignedThat may be meet, to bide the brunt of mighty Juno's wrath? My praise burtes not my health: my fame doth fly, …
394–143499T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.81Although she scatter them in Skies, or make the heavens forlorn More than the Earth, or hell-like gulfs, (wher…
4144–207499T7 The Trojan war: conflict and its afterma0.68Amid the Channel deep a landing plot, When dismal death appears in every wave He cannot suffer shipwreck all a…
5208–267503unassignedUnder the Equinoctial raiseth were, 'gainst th' easterling discomfiting the same. He with his body did batter …
6268–318500T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.76I careful caitiff, ay, beheld my Father's fate, When in the Court a deadly club did Pale him on the pate, And …
7319–364495T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.88She languisheth, she moans for help, she wails her froward fate, And all the house an Echo makes resounding he…
8365–409494T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.90And now steps in an hateful whore, (which more my mind doth irk) To cumber us, as ill as fiends. O Father thou…
9410–456503T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.78I grant it desperate deed, whereto despair now doth me drive. Die sure thou shall. And die I will, (as present…
10457–500497unassignedTo prate what pranks he played with fifty daughters in one night. And yet how soon of such a pang he over came…
11501–546481T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.73But Issue is the thing that doth in marriage kindle love. And Issue is the thing that doth in marriage malice …
12547–591488T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.79Wilt thou thy spouse destroy, On whom the stepdame's spite yet had no power to work annoy? The wraths of heave…
13592–635478T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.77What may it be, that thou would have me keep so secretly? No broil of blades, no prive coat, no fiery force pa…
14636–676468T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.82That love may charmed be by this, to have and keep his hold. The cunning witch dame Michale did teach Thessali…
15677–735501unassignedAlas that faith to kings dwells not in houses of estate: Have Lycas here this shirt, the which my hands have s…
16736–797506unassignedRich Arabia serves not his pining paunch, Nor western India (a world for to behold) Where Tagus flows with str…
17798–863500unassignedFor hasty climbers oft in haste do reel. Mean dames defy both peerless and glittering spangs, And golden chain…
18864–914516T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.82The shirt with Nessus' bane imbrued no sooner hence was sent, And wretched woman that I am tooth closet straig…
19915–960495T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.82Speak, speak, how nigh to Deathward was my dear Alcides gone? Death whom in his own empire he had conquered be…
20961–1004497T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.89By dying first for fainting fear, and while Alcydes held The quaking Carcase in his hand thou shalt (quoth he)…
211005–1049496T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.89When be full crank in fiery cart, about the heavens flew: For thus by slaying Hercules, eke Nations slain I ha…
221050–1102493T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.84Yea though it be to death, I follow will my Hercules He hath both life and breath When he perceived him overma…
231103–1152550T36 Hell, Furies and the language of punishm0.85It will be quit whereas th'infernal fiends shall stint the strife And quit my guilty ghost: my conscience doth…
241153–1193459T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.83I pray you mother spare yourself, forgive your fatal lot, If ye offend of ignorance, than blame deserve ye not…
251194–1278493unassignedAway she runs aghast: ay me, she hath fulfilled her mind, For purposed she was to die and now remains my will …
261279–1328513T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.80Retire, retire thy breathing breasts, O Titan blazing bright, Unfold thy misty mantle black of dim and darksom…
271329–1375512T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.90Withouten any conquest made doth end his latter day, Without exploit or feat of arms myself I pass away. O mig…
281376–1422510T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.83Behold how death and hell Cannot appaule the virtuous mind that of deserving well. By guiltless conscience war…
291423–1468519T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.90Why dost thou thus with privy wound my careful Carcase foil? What gulf under the frozen Climb in savage Scythi…
301469–1516505T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.90O Father with thy heavenly Eyes, Behold my wretched plight, For never HERCULES till now bid crave thy hand of …
311517–1560468T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.87Where shall I wretched mother of Alcides wish to be? Where is my child? where is my son? If sight deceive not …
321561–1603484T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.87If ugly crested Caucasus. In chain of iron link Should bind me as a groaning pray the greedy gripe to feed Yet…
331604–1656532T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.87O Dismal day, O anguish, O the heaper up of ill. Ioues Son is slain, his Daughter dies, his Nephew liveth stil…
341657–1703515T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.88The silly woman was more woe than ye that bide the smart. Ye will release some part hereof for pity in your he…
351704–1750515T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.86Shall as a stately matron be among the Dames of Greece. Though Iuno with the thunderer in spousal chamber lies…
361751–1796515T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.83Among the rascal sprites, but sit on bench by Aeacus' side, And with the judges twain of Crete as Umpire there…
371797–1845496T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.76OF Hercules' most heavy haps Good young man make report How did he bear it at his death? In such a cheerful so…
381846–1889502T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.84Did say to me, have Philoctet, on thee I it bestow, This same is it that Hydra with his swarming heads did kno…
391890–1933494T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.85As on in deep despair He lay, and staring up so rolled his eyes into the air To spy if Ioue look down to him f…
401934–1981494T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.85It boisterous giant Typhus had amid this fire been thrown, These torments would have strained his tears & forc…
411982–2026492T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.93Alone: can flaming Phlegethon thy ghost in torments burn: Or can the mastiff Dog of hell keep down thy woeful …
422027–2070492T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.85(That, for thy sake I do not know where entertained to be). The courtesy of the Cleonies I will attempt and fi…
432071–2121497T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.86My Hercules did bring to pass I had it by What mortal mother ever bare and lost so dear a son? Erst down the c…
442122–2170485T36 Hell, Furies and the language of punishm0.82Should cloyne his Sceptre from his hand, & pluck him from his front? For I am sure I saw thee laid upon the bu…