Jean Yeuwain (c. 1566

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- c. 1626) was a dramatist and man of letters born in the

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. In 1591 he produced '' Hippolyte, tragédie tournée de Sénèque'', a French translation of Seneca's ''

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''. He belonged to the middle class of

and probably studied at the

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de Houdain, founded in 1545 and whose buildings are today part of the

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. In 1591, he produced ''Hippolyte, tragédie tournée de Sénèque''. The text that he used is doubtless the fine one edited by the Jesuit

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(1576). The translator takes liberties with the Latin text. Yeuwain had written other tragedies, which are all now lost. His brother, the poet

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, preserved the manuscript of this one, available now available for consultation in the public library at Mons.

Works

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)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yeuwain, Jean 1560s births 1620s deaths People from Mons Belgian dramatists and playwrights Belgian male dramatists and playwrights Belgian writers in French Latin–French translators Belgian translators Year of birth uncertain