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CHETTLE, HENRY (1564?–16o7?)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 113 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHETTLE, See also:HENRY (1564?–16o7?) , See also:English dramatist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was the son of See also:Robert Chettle, a See also:London See also:dyer. He was apprenticed in 1577 to a stationer, and in 1591 became a partner with See also:William See also:Hoskins and See also:John Danter. In 1592 he published Robert See also:Greene's Groatsworth of Wit. In the See also:preface to his See also:Kind Herts Dreame (end of 1592) he found it necessary to disavow any See also:share in that pamphlet, and incidentally he apologized to three persons (one of them commonly identified with See also:Shakespeare) who had been abused in it. Piers Plainnes Seaven Yeres Prentiship, the See also:story of a fictitious See also:apprenticeship in See also:Crete and See also:Thrace, appeared in 1595. As See also:early as 1598 See also:Francis See also:Meres includes him in his Palladis Tamia as one of the " best for See also:comedy," and between that See also:year and 1603 he wrote or collaborated in some See also:forty-nine pieces. He seems to have been generally in See also:debt, judging from numerous entries in See also:Henslowe's See also:diary of advances for various purposes, on one occasion (17th of See also:January 1599) to pay his expenses in the See also:Marshalsea See also:prison, on another (7th of See also:March 1603) to get his See also:play out of See also:pawn. Of the thirteen plays usually attributed to Chettle's See also:sole authorship only one was printed. This was The Tragedy of See also:Hoffmann: or a Revenge for a See also:Father (played 1602; printed 1631), a share in which Mr Fleay assigns to See also:Thomas See also:Heywood. It has been suggested that this piece was put forward as a See also:rival to Shakespeare's See also:Hamlet. Among the plays in which Chettle had a share is catalogued The Danish Tragedy, which was probably either identical with See also:Hofmann or another version of the same story. The Pleasant Comedie of Patient Grissill (1599), in which he collaborated with Thomas See also:Dekker and William See also:Haughton, was reprinted by the Shakespeare Society in 1841.

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Art See also:thou poor, yet hast thou See also:golden slumbers," which is probably Dekker's. In See also:November 1599 Chettle receives ten shillings for mending the first See also:part of " See also:Robin See also:Hood," i.e. The Downfall of Robert, See also:Earl of See also:Huntingdon, by See also:Anthony See also:Munday;and in the second part, which followed soon after and was printed in 16oi, The See also:Death of Robert, See also:Earle of Huntingdon, he collaborated with Munday. Both plays are printed in. See also:Dodsley's Select Collection of Old English Plays (ed. W. C. See also:Hazlitt, vol. viii.). In 1603 Chettle published See also:England's See also:Mourning Garment, in which are included some verses alluding to the See also:chief poets of the See also:time. His death took See also:place before the See also:appearance of Dekker's See also:Knight's Conjurer in 1607, for he is there mentioned as a See also:recent arrival in limbo. Hoffmann was edited by H. B(arrett) L(ennard) (1852) and by See also:Richard See also:Ackermann (See also:Bamberg, 1894).

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