Attempts have been made to contact the copyright owner over several years, without result. The material is provided here for personal use, and is not made available for commercial gain. In the case of objection by the copyright owner, the material will be withdrawn from public display.The Roman tragedian Seneca is generally, and rightly, considered to have made a profound impact on the dramatists of the English Renaissance. As his work preceded theirs by many centuries (he lived from A.D. 1-65), and as translations of it appeared in England before the major English tragedies, it is interesting to consider how he dealt with important issues which we see as dominant in the English plays. One such issue is that of madness
