Author:George Chapman

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George Chapman (1559–1634)

English poet and playwright

Works

Plays

Comedies

• The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596, printed 1598)
• An Humorous Day's Mirth (1597, printed 1599)
• All Fools (printed 1605)
• Eastward Ho (1605; with Jonson and Marston)
• Monseur D’Olive (1605, printed 1606)
• The Gentleman Usher (printed 1606)
• May-Day (printed 1611)
• The Widow's Tears (printed 1612)

Tragedies

• Bussy D’Ambois (printed 1607)
• Conspiracy of Charles Duke of Byron (printed 1608)
• Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron (printed 1608)
• The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (printed 1613)
• Chabot Admiral of France (1639; revised by James Shirley)
• Rollo Duke of Normandy (with Jonson, Fletcher, and Massinger)
• Caesar and Pompey (c. 1613, printed 1631)

Attributed

• The Ball (1639; written by James Shirley)
• Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany (1654)
• Revenge for Honor (1654; possibly by Glapthorne)

Poems

• De Guiana, Carmen Epicum
• Hero and Leander (continuation of Marlowe's poem)
• Euthymiae Raptus; or the Tears of Peace

Translations

• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• The Homeric Hymns

Works about Chapman

• George Chapman article in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature