 It was not until Act IV that they were told of Atreus' crimes by the messenger.Some critics think that the contrast between what the Chorus says and what actually happens is confusing to the audience, which is why the Chorus is the least understood aspect of Senecan dramas.In 1560 Jasper Heywood, then a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, published a verse translation, which was republished in 1581 as part of "Seneca, his tenne tragedies, translated into Englyſh".