The son of a dyer, Henry Chettle became a stationer and later a playwright for the Admiral's Men. Thomas Nashe regarded him as an ally of Gabriel Harvey; Chettle was imprisoned for debt in 1599. According to Philip Henslow's diary, he was the author of thirty-eight plays, of which only four were printed. Henry Chettle collaborated with Michael Drayton on Black Batman of the North.
TEXT RECORDS:
1600A Pastorall Song between Phillis and Amarillis, two Nimphes, each answering other line for line.
1603Englandes Mourning Garment.
1603The Shepheards Spring Song.
PUBLICATIONS:
Kind-harts dreame. Conteining five apparitions. 1593.
Piers Plainnes seaven yeres prentiship. 1595.
The downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington. 1601.
The death of Robert, Earle of Huntington. 1601.
The pleasant comodie of Patient Grissil. 1603.
Englandes mourning garment. 1603.
The tragedy of Hoffman or a revenge for a father. 1631.
The blind-beggar of Bethnal Green. 1659.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
education not known
book trade
dramatist
poet
John Day
Thomas Dekker
Michael Drayton
Thomas Heywood
Ben Jonson
Anthony Munday
John Webster
REFERENCE:
DNB; NCBEL; DLB.
England's Helicon (1600, 1614); Biographia Dramatica (1782; 1812); Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia Poetica (1802) 159; Censura Literaria 6 (1808) 29-30; Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844); Thomas Corser, Collectanea Anglo-Poetica 4 (1869) 350-54; Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); Henry Jenkins, The Life and Work of Henry Chettle (1934); Lewis, OHEL (1954); C. T. Wright, Mundy and Chettle in Grub Street, Boston University Studies in English 5 (1961); Mark Eccles, "Brief Lives" Studies in Philology 79 (1982); Saunders, Renaissance Poets (1983).
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1. | 1603 Michael Drayton: Henry Chettle, in Englandes Mourning Garment (1603) Sigs D2v, D3. |
2. | 1603 Bp. Joseph Hall: Henry Chettle, in Englandes Mourning Garment (1603) Sig. D2v. |
3. | 1603 Rev. Thomas Walkington: Henry Chettle, [Of The Lamentations of Melpome by T. W.] Englandes Mourning Garment (1603) Sig. D3-D3v. |