- Jean Yeuwain
Jean Yeuwain (c. 1566 - c. 1626) was a dramatist and man of letters born in the
Southern Netherlands . In 1591 he produced "Hippolyte, tragédie tournée de Sénèque", a French translation of Seneca's "Phaedra".He belonged to the middle class of
Mons and probably studied at theCollège deHoudain , founded in 1545 and whose buildings are today part of theFaculté polytechnique de Mons .In 1591, he produced "Hippolyte, tragédie tournée de Sénèque". The text that he used is doubtless the fine one edited by the
Jesuit Antoine Delrio (1576). The translator takes liberties with the Latin text. Yeuwain had written other tragedies, which are all now lost. His brother, the poetAndré Yeuwain , preserved the manuscript of this one, available now available for consultation in the public library at Mons.Works
* [http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Jean_Yeuwain Jean Yeuwain, Hippolyte, tragédie tournée de Sénèque (1591), critical edition preceded by an introduction and accompanied by a literary study by Gontran Van Severen, doctor in philosophy and letters, Léon Dequesne, Mons, 1933. In-8°.] (on Wikisource)
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