The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Thomas Newton
Thomas Newton.
One of the Translators of Seneca, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, he translated one entirely, and club’d with Jasper Heywood and Alexander Nevile in the rest; but publish’d them all together, with a Dedication to Sir Thomas Henage, then Treasurer of her Majesty‘’s Chamber. Philips, in his Theatrum Poetarum, ascribes one other Play to this Author, call’d, Tamberlain the Great, which is none of his, but Marlo’s.
Thebais, a Tragedy, 4 to. Translated from Seneca, as before intimated, it has no Chorus, and is the shortest of all that Author’s Tragedies.