as 'courting it now and than', when he was 'yong, almost thirtie yeeres agoe', and calls on a number of poets under fanciful names to sing the dead queen's praise. They are Daniel, Warner, Chapman (Coryn), Jonson (our English Horace), Shakespeare (Melicert), Drayton (Coridon), Lodge (Musidore), Dekker (Antihorace), Marston (Moelibee), and Petowe (?). Chettle was therefore alive in 1603, but
he is spoken of as dead in Dekker's Knight's Conjuring (1607).
PLAYS The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon. 1598
The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon. 1598
For Chettle's relation to these two plays, see s.v. Munday.
Patient Grissel. 1600
With Dekker (q.v.) and Haughton.
1 Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green. 1600
With Day (q.v.).
Sir Thomas Wyatt. 1602
With Dekker (q.v.), Heywood, Smith, and Webster, as Lady Jane, or The Overthrow of Rebels, but whether anything of Chettle's survives in the extant text is doubtful.
Hoffman or A Revenge for a Father. 1602 <
S. R. 1630, Feb. 26 (Herbert). 'A play called Hoffman the Reveng-*full ffather.' John Grove (Arber, iv. 229).
1631. The Tragedy of Hoffman or A Reuenge for a Father, As it hath bin diuers times acted with great applause, at the Phenix in Druery-lane. I. N. for Hugh Perry. [Epistle to Richard Kiluert, signed 'Hvgh Perry'.]
Editions by H. B. L[eonard] (1852), R. Ackermann (1894), and J. S. Farmer (1913, S. F. T.).—Dissertations: N. Delius, C.'s H. und Shakespeare's Hamlet (1874, Jahrbuch, ix. 166); A. H. Thorndike, The Relations of Hamlet to Contemporary Revenge Plays (1902, M. L. A. xvii. 125).
Henslowe paid Chettle, on behalf of the Admiral's, £1 in earnest of 'a Danyshe tragedy' on 7 July 1602, and 5s. in part payment for a tragedy of 'Howghman' on 29 Dec. It seems natural to take the latter, and perhaps also the former, entry as relating to this play, although it does not bear Chettle's name on the title-page. But its completion was presumably later than the termination of Henslowe's record in 1603. Greg (Henslowe, ii. 226) rightly repudiates the suggestion of Fleay, i. 70, 291, that as we are justified in regarding Hoffman the unnamed tragedy of Chettle and Heywood in Jan. 1603, for which a blank can of course afford no evidence. But 'the Prince of the burning crowne' is referred to in Kempe's Nine Daies Wonder, 22, not as a 'play', but as a suggested theme for a ballad-writer.
