HEYWOOD, JASPER son of John Heywood (q.v.), who translated into English three plays of Seneca, the Troas (i559), the Thyestes (156o) and Hercules Furens (1561) . He died at Naples on Jan. 9, 1598. His translations of Seneca were supplemented by other plays contributed by Alexander Neville, Thomas Nuce, John Studley and Thomas Newton. New ton collected these translations in one volume, Seneca, his tenne tragedies translated into Englysh (1581) . The importance of this work in the development of English drama can hardly be over estimated.
See Dr. J. W. Cunliffe, On the Influence of Seneca upon Elizabethan Tragedy