Author:George Chapman

George Chapman
(1559–1634)

George Chapman

Works

Plays

Comedies

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

Tragedies

• Bussy D’Ambois (1607)
• Conspiracy of Charles Duke of Byron (1608)
• Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron (1608)
• The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613)
• Chabot Admiral of France (1639), revised by James Shirley
• Rollo Duke of Normandy, with Jonson, Fletcher, and Massinger
• Caesar and Pompey (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 (transcription project), begun by Christopher Marlowe and completed by Chapman
• Euthymiae Raptus; or the Tears of Peace

Translations

• Homer's Iliads. Translated according to ye Greeke (1611)
• Homer's Odysses. Translated according to ye Greeke (1613)
• The Homeric Hymns

Works about Chapman

• "George Chapman," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 18−19), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• George Chapman, a critical essay (1875), by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "George Chapman", (1882) a sonnet by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Chapman, George," by Algernon Charles Swinburne in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (5) (1878)
• "Chapman, George (1559?-1634)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "George Chapman" in The Age of Shakespeare (1908) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Chapman, George," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Chapman, George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)