* Stationer Thomas Marsh publishes Seneca's Tragedies in English, a collected edition of ten dramas written by Seneca the Younger ( or attributed to him ), translated by Jasper Heywood, John Studley, Alexander Neville, Thomas Newton, and Thomas Nuce.

Seneca's plays were widely read in medieval and Renaissance European universities and strongly influenced tragic drama in that time, such as Elizabethan England ( Shakespeare and other playwrights ), France ( Corneille and Racine ), and the Netherlands ( Joost van den Vondel ).

It is still unclear if Seneca's plays were performed or recited during Roman times ; at any rate, Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights staged them, as it were, with a vengeance, in plays full of gruesome and often darkly comic violence.

While travelling in Europe he prepared a thesis entitled John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, which won him a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted in plays including the Cambridge Greek Play.

" John Cotgrave ’ s English Treasury of Wit and Language and the Elizabethan Drama " Studies in Philology, Vol.

* Studies in the Elizabethan Drama ( 1919 )

It has been called " all but unendurable " because of its " outrageous rant and bombast " by Felix Shelling in Elizabethan Drama ( 1908 ) and also called a " repulsive bombast " by Adolphus Ward in A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne ( 1875 ).

In 1909 his volume Elizabethan Drama Notes and Studies proclaimed him a scholar of unusual ability and knowledge, and his studies in this period stimulated him to write his one-act play in blank verse To-Morrow: A Dramatic Sketch of the Character and Environment of Robert Greene.

" On the Value of Hamlet " in Reinterpretations of Elizabethan Drama: Selected Papers from the English Institute.

From Mankind to Marlowe: Growth of Structure in Elizabethan Drama.

Drama had developed the late Elizabethan theatre traditions and had begun to mount increasingly topical and political plays ( for example, the drama of Thomas Middleton ).

25, No. 2, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama ( Spring, 1985 ), pp. 271 – 288.

32, No. 2, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama ( Spring, 1992 ), pp. 217 – 232.

The most famous themes of the Elizabethan Drama are: Revenge, Sensationalism, Melodrama and Vengeance.

* Shakespeare and the Universities: And Other Studies in Elizabethan Drama ( 1923 )