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Medea (John Studley) S. R. 1565-6. 'A boke intituled the tragedy of Seneca Media by John Studley of Trenety Colledge in Cambryge.' Thomas Colwell (Arber, i. 312). 1566. The seuenth Tragedie of Seneca, Entituled Medea: Translated out of Latin into English, by Iohn Studley, Student in Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge. Thomas Colwell. [Epistle to Francis, Earl of Bedford, signed 'Iohn Studley'; Preface to Reader; Commendatory Verses by W. P.; Argument.] Octavia (Thomas Nuce)  Hercules Oetaeus (John Studley)  S. R. 1566-7. 'A boke intituled the ix^{th} and x^{th} tragide of Lucious Anneas oute of the laten into englesshe by T. W. fellowe of Pembrek Hall, in Chambryge.' Henry Denham (Arber, i. 327). 1570-1. 'iij^{de} part of Herculus Oote.' Thomas Colwell (Arber, i. 443). The ninth Tragedie of Lucius Anneus Seneca called Octavia. Translated out of Latine into English, by T. N. Student in Cambridge. Henry Denham. [Epistles to Robert Earl of Leicester, signed 'T. N.', and to the Reader.] This is B.M. C. 34, e. 48. C. Grabau in Sh.-Jahrbuch, xliii. 310, says that a copy in the Irish sale of 1906 was of an unknown edition, possibly of 1566. Hippolytus (John Studley) S. R. 1566-7. 'The iiij^{th} parte Seneca Workes.' Henry Denham (Arber, i. 336). 31 Aug. 1579. Transfer from Denham to Richard Jones and John Charlwood (Arber, ii. 359). ''The Ten Tragedies. 1581''

S. R. 1580-1. 'Senecas Tragedies in Englishe.' Thomas Marsh (Arber, ii. 396).

1581. Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh. ''Thomas Marsh.'' [Epistle to Sir Thomas Heneage by Thomas Newton. Adds Thebais, by Thomas Newton, and, if not already printed, as S. R. entries in 1566-7 and 1570-1 suggest, Hercules Oetaeus and Hippolytus, by John Studley. The Oedipus of Neville is a revised text.]

Reprint of 1581 collection (1887, Spenser Soc.), and editions of Studley's Agamemnon and Medea, by E. M. Spearing (1913, Materialien, xxxviii), and of Heywood's Troas, Thyestes, and Hercules Furens, by H. de Vocht (1913, Materialien, xli).—Dissertations: J. W. Cunliffe, The Influence of S. on Elizabethan Tragedy (1893); E. Jockers, ''Die englischen S.-Übersetzer des 16. Jahrhunderts (1909, Strassburg diss.''); E. M. Spearing, The Elizabethan 'Tenne Tragedies of S.' (1909, M. L. R. iv. 437), The Elizabethan Translation of S.'s Tragedies (1912), A. N.'s Oedipus (1920, M. L. R. xv. 359); F. L. Lucas, ''S. and Elizabethan Tragedy'' (1922).