Roxana [Latin]

By William Alabaster

William Alabaster, or Alablaster, was born at Hadleigh, Suffolk in 1567. He was educated at Hadleigh grammar school, Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, which he entered as a scholar in 1584. He took his B.A. in 1587, and M.A. in 1591. In 1592 he was incorporated of the University of Oxford. While at Cambridge, Alabaster wrote Roxana, a Senecan tragedy in Latin, in 1592. It was performed at Trinity soon after to great enthusiasm. Forty years after its first performance, it was still esteemed highly enough to warrant an unauthorized publication, in 1632. Full of errors, this induced Alabaster to publish an authorized edition later in the same year. Johnson, in his Lives of the Poets, says, in reference to "Latin verses with classic elegance" "If we produced any thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton, it was perhaps Alabaster's Roxana. www.arepo.biz

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 1470067269
• ISBN13: 9781470067267
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"