1. George Chapman was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism.
17 Facts About George Chapman
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George Chapman is best remembered for his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Homeric Batrachomyomachia.
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George Chapman's father appears to have been reasonably well off, but George was the younger son, and would need to earn his living.
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George Chapman encountered two problems that were to dog him during his career, debt and the failure to find a patron who could give him long-term support.
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In 1585 George Chapman was approached by one John Wolfall Sr.
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George Chapman saw military action in the Low Countries, fighting under renowned English general Sir Francis Vere.
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George Chapman returned to England at some point in the 1590s.
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George Chapman would be plagued for many years by the papers he had signed in 1585.
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At one point George Chapman appears to have returned to Hertfordshire to evade his creditors, but he died in London.
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George Chapman was buried at St Giles in the Fields.
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Jones was a friend of George Chapman and had collaborated with him on projects such as The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn.
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On publication, the offending material was excised, and George Chapman refers to the play in his dedication to Sir Thomas Walsingham as "poore dismembered Poems".
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George Chapman's authorship has been argued in connection with a number of other anonymous plays of his era.
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George Chapman has been put forward as the author, in whole or in part, of Sir Giles Goosecap, Two Wise Men And All The Rest Fools, The Fountain of New Fashions, and The Second Maiden's Tragedy.
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George Chapman's earliest published works were the obscure philosophical poems The Shadow of Night and Ovid's Banquet of Sense.
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Some have considered George Chapman to be the "rival poet" of Shakespeare's sonnets, although conjecture places him as one in a large field of possibilities.
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George Chapman translated the Homeric Hymns, the Georgics of Virgil, The Works of Hesiod, the Hero and Leander of Musaeus and the Fifth Satire of Juvenal.