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Ĭhettle's poetry was included in the New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950. B(arrett) L(ennard) (1852) and by Richard Ackermann (Bamberg, 1894). His death took place before the appearance of Dekker’s Knight’s Conjurer in 1607, for he is there mentioned as a recent arrival in limbo. In 1603 Chettle published England’s Mourning Garment, in which are included some verses alluding to the chief poets of the time. Both plays are printed in Dodsley’s Select Collection of Old English Plays (edited by W.C.
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The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, by Anthony Munday and in the 2nd part, which followed soon after and was printed in 1601, he collaborated with Munday. In November 1599 Chettle received 10 shillings for mending the 1st part of Robin Hood, i.e. It contains the lyric “Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers,” which is probably Dekker’s. The Pleasant Comedie of Patient Grissill (1599), in which he collaborated with Thomas Dekker and William Haughton, was reprinted by the Shakespeare Society in 1841. Īmong the plays in which Chettle had a share is catalogued The Danish Tragedy, which was probably either identical with Hoffmann or another version of the same story. It has been suggested that this piece was put forward as a rival to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A revenge for a father (played 1602 printed 1631), a share in which Fleay assigns to Thomas Heywood. Of the 13 plays usually attributed to Chettle’s sole authorship only a single play was printed. He seems to have been generally in debt, judging from numerous entries in Henslowe’s diary of advances for various purposes, on one occasion (17th of January 1599) to pay his expenses in the Marshalsea prison, on another (7th of March 1603) to get his play out of pawn. Īs early as 1598 Francis Meres includes Chettle in his Palladis Tamia as one of the “best for comedy,” and between that year and 1603 he wrote or collaborated in some 49 pieces. Piers Plainnes Seaven Yeres Prentiship, the story of a fictitious apprenticeship in Crete and Thrace, appeared in 1595. In the preface to his Kind Herts Dreame (end of 1592) he found it necessary to disavow any share in that pamphlet, and incidentally he apologized to 3 persons (1 of them commonly identified with Shakespeare) who had been abused in it. In 1592 he published Robert Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit. He was apprenticed in 1577 to a stationer, and in 1591 became a partner with William Hoskins and John Danter. Youth Ĭhettle was the son of Robert Chettle, a London dyer. Among his own plays, which have considerable merit, is Hoffmann, which has been reprinted, and he had a hand in Patient Grissill (1603) (which may have influenced Shakespeare in the Merry Wives of Windsor), The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, and Jane Shore. Greene's Groat's-worth of Wit (1592), is believed to have written 13 and collaborated in 35 plays, and also wrote 2 satires" Kind Harts Dreame (1593) and Pierre Plainnes Prentship (1595).