Author:George Chapman

George Chapman
(1559–1634)

George Chapman

The following list of works is based on that given in George Chapman: an annotated bibliography of commentary and criticism (1995) by Vincent W Beach. It excludes works identified as being lost or unpublished. Full titles gleaned from Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Works

Plays

Comedies

• The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1598)
• An Humorous Day's Mirth (1599)
• Sir Giles Goosecap (1602)
• The Gentleman Usher (1606)
• Mayday (1611)
• All Fools (1605)
• Monsieur D’Olive (1606)
• Eastward Ho (1605), with Jonson and Marston
• 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)
• Caesar and Pompey (1631)
• The Tragedy of Chabot Admiral of France (1635), revised by James Shirley

Attributed

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

Poetry

• The Shadow of Night: Containing Two Poeticall Hymnes (1594)
• Hero and Leander (4 Sestiads) (1598)

• Hero and Leander (1821) (transcription project), begun by Christopher Marlowe and completed by Chapman

• "Peristeros: or the Male Turtle", in Loves Martyr or, Rosalin's Complaint, by Robert Chester (1601)
• * "Euthymiæ raptus; or The teares of peace with interlocutions" (1609) (1609)
• An Epicede or Funerall Song (1612)
• The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn (1613)
• Eugenia: or Two Nobilities Trance (1614)
• Andromeda liberta (1614)
• Pro Vere, Autumni Lachrymae (1622)

Translations

• Ovids banquet of sence: A coronet for his mistresse philosophie, and his amorous zodiacke (1595)
• Achilles shield Translated as the other seven bookes of Homer, out of his eighteenth booke of Iliades (1598)
• Seaven bookes of the Iliades of Homere, prince of poets, translated according to the Greeke, in judgement of his best commentaries (1598)
• Homer prince of poets: translated according to the Greeke, in twelve bookes of his Iliads (1609)
• The Iliads of Homer prince of poets, Never before in any languag truely translated. With a comment uppon some of his chiefe places; donne according to the Greeke (1611)
• Petrarchs seuen penitentiall psalmes paraphrastically translated: with other philosophicall poems, and a hymne to Christ vpon the crosse (1612)
• Homer's Odysses. Translated according to ye Greeke (1615)
• The whole works of Homer; prince of poetts in his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke (1616)
• The divine poem of Musæus. First of all bookes. Translated according to the originall (1616)
• The georgicks of Hesiod, translated elaborately out of the Greek: containing doctrine of husbandrie, moralitie, and pietie; with a perpetuall calendar of good and bad daies; not superstitious, but necessarie (as farre as naturall causes compell) for all men to observe, and difference in following their affaires (1618)
• The Crowne of All Homers Workes (1624)
• A justification of a strange action of Nero; in burying with a solemne funerall, one of the cast hayres of his mistresse Poppæa. Also a just reproofe of a Romane smell-feast, being the fifth satyre of Juvenall (1629)

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 (v. 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)