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George Chapman (c. 1559 – 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism . William Minto speculated that Chapman is the unnamed Rival Poet of Shakespeare 's sonnets.
The School of Night is a modern name for a group of men centred on Sir Walter Raleigh that was once referred to in 1592 as the "School of Atheism".The group supposedly included poets and scientists Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman, Matthew Roydon and Thomas Harriot.
1590 1 February – Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (born 1527) 12 February – Blanche Parry, personal attendant to Elizabeth I (born c. 1508) 6 April – Francis Walsingham, principal secretary to Elizabeth I and spymaster (born 1530) 18 November – George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, statesman (born 1528)
A. H. Bullen's belief that the principal author was George Chapman, and his rejection of the claims for Nathan Field have been supported by later textual scholarship. Franck L. Schoell detects the stylistic influence of Christopher Marlowe in the play, and finds clear similarities of both theme and style to Chapman's other plays.
Sussex was a patron of men of letters. In 1592 Robert Greene dedicated to him as Lord Fitzwalter Euphues Shadow, by Thomas Lodge. George Chapman prefixed to his translation of the Iliad (1598), a sonnet to him, 'with duty always remembered to his honoured countess.'
In 1603, the Children of Paul’s performed the controversial play by George Chapman: The Old Joiner Of Aldgate. This is a lost play considered to be a dramatised representation of the legal wrangling in the Star Chamber of one John Flaskett (a local book binder) and a woman of considerable inheritance he was betrothed to: Agnes How.
Bussy D'Ambois: A Tragedie (probably written 1603–1604; first published 1607) [1] is a Jacobean stage play written by George Chapman.Classified as either a tragedy or "contemporary history," Bussy D'Ambois is widely considered Chapman's greatest play, [2] and is the earliest in a series of plays that Chapman wrote about the French political scene in his era, including the sequel The Revenge ...
(In a surviving letter to George Buc, the Master of the Revels, Chapman blames the actors for playing a scene that Buc himself had previously censored from the plays.) [3] Fortunately, James's passion for drama got the better of his anger; the boys were eventually forgiven, and even performed at Court in the ensuing Christmas season.