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Henry Chettle was the son of Robert Chettle, a London dyer. He was born in 1564 in United Kingdom.
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Henry Chettle was the son of Robert Chettle, a London dyer. He was born in 1564 in United Kingdom.
In 1592 Henry Chettle published Robert Greene's Groatsworth of Wit.
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 three persons (one of them commonly identified with Shakespeare) who had been abused in it.
Piers Plainnes Seaven Yeres Prentiship, the story of a fictitious apprenticeship in Crete and Thrace, appeared in 1595- As early as 1598 Francis Meres includes him in his Palladis Tamia as one of the " best for comedy, " and between that year and 1603 he wrote or collaborated in some forty-nine pieces.
He seems to have been generally in debt, judging from numerous entries in Henslowe's diary of advances for various purposes, on one occasion (17 th of January 1599) to pay his expenses in the Marshalsea prison, on another (7th of March 1603) to get his play out of pawn.
Of the thirteen plays usually attributed to Chettle's sole authorship only one was printed.
This was The Tragedy of Hoffmann: or a Revenge for a Father (played 1602; printed 1631), a share in which Mr Fleay assigns to Thomas Heywood.
It has been suggested that this piece was put forward as a rival to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Among 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.
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.
It contains the lyric " Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers, " which is probably Dekker's.
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