Christopher Wase (1627 – 29 August 1690)[1] was an English scholar, author, translator, and educator, who was the Architypographus of Oxford University Press for several years.
[3] In 1649 he published a translation of Sophocles's ‘Electra,’ dedicated to Princess Elizabeth, with an appendix designed to show his devotion to the Stuart house.
He was taken prisoner, but was released, and returned to England and became tutor to William, the eldest son of Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke.
[1] In 1647 Nicholas Gray, the Head Master of Eton, published Wase's Greek version of Hugo Grotius's Baptizatorum Puerorum Institutio (other editions 1650, 1665, 1668, and 1682).
The debate between the two sisters represent the political options facing Royalists in the immediate aftermath of the regicide: compromise with the new Commonwealth government or resist it.
Wase appended two poems anticipating the immediate restoration of the monarchy, one of which mentions John Milton and alludes to his divorce tracts.