Jasper Heywood, a son of the playwright…

Jasper Heywood, a son of the playwright John Heywood, had been educated at Oxford, joined the Jesuits in Rome in 1562, and two years later become professor at their college at Dillingen in Germany.

His translations of the works of the Roman playwright Seneca, including Troades (1559), Thyestes (1560), Hercules furens (1561), and other plays issued as Seneca His Tenne Tragedies Translated into English 1581, will influence English drama.

Head of the Jesuit mission to England from 1581, he had been imprisoned during 1583–85 and now is exiled.