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Henry Chettle was born in or about 1561. He was the son of Robert Chettle, a London dyer.
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Henry Chettle
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He was apprenticed to a London stationer, became a freeman of the Stationers' Company in 1584, and worked intermittently as a printer over a number of years.
Career
He was apprenticed to a London stationer, became a freeman of the Stationers' Company in 1584, and worked intermittently as a printer over a number of years. Chettle came into contact with many popular writers, including Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, and Anthony Munday, and gradually turned to authorship himself. He transcribed and edited Greene's Groats-worth of Wit (1592), in which occurs the famous attack on Shakespeare as "an upstart crow, " and he made amends in his own Kind Harts Dreame (1592), where he pays tribute to Shakespeare's "civil" demeanor and "uprightness of dealing" as well as to his skill as actor and poet. This work was a traditional satire of abuses given an original twist by its lively use of topical personalities. Piers Plainnes Seaven Yeres Prentiship (1595) was a picaresque romance. It was natural enough for a needy writer to find employment with the theater. Chettle was sometimes hired to patch up other authors' plays. From 1598 to 1603 he received payment for 49 plays, most written in collaboration with other playwrights. Not all were finished. In his battle against poverty he often obtained advances of a few shillings on plays he never completed. The Tragedy of Hoffman (1602) is the only extant play solely by Chettle, although four plays on which he collaborated were published: The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington and its sequel The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington (both 1598), with Anthony Munday; Patient Grissill (1599), with Thomas Dekker and William Haughton; and The Blind-Beggar of Bednal-Green (1600), with John Day. Chettle's readiness to write anything salable produced Englandes Mourning Garment (1603), a pastoral lament for Queen Elizabeth's death. He is chiefly interesting perhaps as typifying the career of the Elizabethan popular playwright who wrote with versatile rapidity for a precarious living; but The Tragedy of Hoffman is of some importance in the development of the tragedy of revenge. Chettle died not later than 1607, when Dekker's A Knights Conjuring referred to him as a new arrival in Elysium.
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The tragedy of Hoffmann; or, A revenge for a father
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Patient Grissill: A Comedy
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The death of Robert, earl of Huntington
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The tragedy of Hoffmann; or, A revenge for a father
