Horestes

Horestes
Illustration from a 1473 edition of Boccaccio's On Famous Women of the revenge of Horestes.
Written by	John Pickering
Date premiered	1567
Genre	Morality play

Horestes is a late Tudor morality play by the English dramatist John Pickering. It was first published in 1567 and was most likely performed by Lord Rich's men as part of the Christmas revels at court that year.^[1] The play's full title is A new interlude of Vice containing the history of Horestes with the cruel revengement of his father's death upon his one natural mother. It has been proposed that John Pickering (John Pickeryng) is likely to be the same person as lawyer and politician Sir John Puckering.^[2]