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 caricatured as Bellamont in Dekker and Webster's Northward Ho!, was followed by a second in Byron. He now probably dropped his connexion with the stage, at any rate for many years. After completing Marlowe's Hero and Leander in 1598, he had begun his series of Homeric translations, and these Prince Henry, to whom he had been appointed sewer in ordinary at the beginning of James's reign, now bade him pursue, with the promise of £300, to which on his deathbed in 1612 he added another of a life-pension. These James failed to redeem, and Chapman also lost his place as sewer. His correspondence contains complaints of poverty, probably of this or a later date, and indications of an attempt, with funds supplied by a brother, to mend his fortunes by marriage with a widow. He found a new patron in the Earl of Somerset, wrote one of the masks for the wedding of the Princess Elizabeth in 1613, and went on with Homer, completing his task in 1624. He lived until 12 May 1634, and his tomb by Inigo Jones still stands at St. Giles-in-the-Fields. In his later years he seems to have touched up some of his dramatic work and possibly to have lent a hand to the younger dramatist Shirley. Jonson told Drummond in 1619 that 'next himself, only Fletcher and Chapman could make a mask', and that 'Chapman and Fletcher were loved of him' (Laing, 4, 12), and some of Jonson's extant letters appear to confirm the kindly relations which these phrases suggest. But a fragment of invective against Jonson left by Chapman on his death-bed suggests that they did not endure for ever. Collections

1873. [R. H. Shepherd.] ''The Comedies and Tragedies of George Chapman.'' 3 vols. (Pearson reprints). [Omits Eastward Ho!]

1874-5. R. H. Shepherd. The Works of George Chapman. 3 vols. [With Swinburne's essay. Includes The Second Maiden's Tragedy and Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools.]

1895. W. L. Phelps. The Best Plays of George Chapman (Mermaid Series). [All Fools, the two Bussy and the two Byron plays.]

1910-14. T. M. Parrott. The Plays and Poems of George Chapman. 3 vols. [Includes Sir Giles Goosecap, The Ball, Alphonsus Emperor of Germany, and Revenge for Honour. The Poems not yet issued.]

Dissertations: F. Bodenstedt, C. in seinem Verhältniss zu Shakespeare (1865, Jahrbuch, i. 300); A. C. Swinburne, ''G. C.: A Critical Essay (1875); E. Koeppel, Quellen-Studien zu den Dramen G. C.'s, &c.'' (1897, Quellen und Forschungen, lxxxii); B. Dobell, ''Newly discovered Documents of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods (1901, Ath. i. 369, 403, 433, 465); A. Acheson, Shakespeare and the Rival Poet'' (1903); E. E. Stoll, On the Dates of some of C.'s Plays (1905, M. L. N. xx. 206); T. M. Parrott, Notes on the Text of C.'s Plays (1907, Anglia, xxx. 349, 501); F. L. Schoell, Chapman as a Comic Writer (1911, Paris diss., unprinted, but used by Parrott); J. M. Robertson, ''Shakespeare and C.'' (1917).