Editing Thyestes (section)

==Theatre==
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In the first century AD, [[Seneca the Younger]] wrote a tragedy called ''[[Thyestes (Seneca)|Thyestes]]''. In 1560 [[Jasper Heywood]], then a Fellow of [[All Souls College]], [[Oxford]], published a [[Verse (poetry)|verse]] [[translation]]. [[Shakespeare]]'s tragedy ''[[Titus Andronicus]]'' derives some of its plot elements from the story of Thyestes. In 1681, [[John Crowne]] wrote ''Thyestes, A Tragedy'', based closely on Seneca's Thyestes, but with the incongruous addition of a love story. [[Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon|Prosper Jolyot Crebillon]] (1674–1762) wrote a tragedy "Atree et Thyeste" (1707), which is prominent in two tales of ratiocination by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. In 1796, [[Ugo Foscolo]] (1778–1827) wrote a tragedy called ''Tieste'' that was first presented in [[Venice]] one year later. [[Caryl Churchill]], a British dramatist, also wrote a rendition of ''Thyestes.'' Churchill's specific translation was performed at the Royal Court Theater Upstairs in London on June 7, 1994.<ref>Seneca; Churchill, Caryl (2014). ''Thyestes''. Nick Hern Books.</ref> In 2004, [[Jan van Vlijmen]] (1935–2004) completed his opera ''Thyeste''. The [[libretto]] was a text in French by [[Hugo Claus]], based on his 20th century play with the same title (in Dutch: ''Thyestes''). Thyestes appears in [[Ford Ainsworth]]'s one-act play, ''Persephone''.

Seneca's influence in literature is reflected through other works. In Arnold's Sonnet on Shakespeare, the influence of Seneca is apparent. "The reminiscence of Atreus' speech in the ''Thyestes'' of Seneca, which might subtend Cleopatra's own passionate, distended rhetoric about Antony" (Edgecombe, 257).<ref name=":0">Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning (2013). "A Debt to Seneca in Arnold's Sonnet on Shakespeare". ''Notes and Queries'' 60.2 (2013): 257. {{doi|10.1093/notesj/gjt038}}.</ref>