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1598Jan, 9

Jasper Heywood

Jasper Heywood, English poet and scholar (b. 1553)
Jasper Heywood (1535 – 9 January 1598) was an English Jesuit priest. He is known as the English translator of three Latin plays of Seneca, the Troas (1559), the Thyestes (1560) and Hercules Furens (1561).

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