Jean Yeuwain (c. 1566Mons -c. 1626) was a dramatist and man of letters born in theSouthern Netherlands. In 1591 he producedHippolyte, tragédie tournée de Sénèque, a French translation of Seneca'sPhaedra.[1]
He belonged to the middle class ofMons and probably studied at theCollège deHoudain, founded in 1545 and whose buildings are today part of theFaculté polytechnique de Mons.[citation needed]
In 1591, he producedHippolyte, tragédie tournée de Sénèque. The text that he used is doubtless the fine one edited by theJesuitAntoine Delrio (1576). The translator takes liberties with the Latin text. Yeuwain had written other tragedies, which are all now lost. His brother, the poetAndré Yeuwain, preserved the manuscript of this one, available now available for consultation in the public library at Mons.[citation needed]
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