George Chapman was an English dramatist, translator and poet.
14 Facts About George Chapman
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George Chapman was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism.
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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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In 1585 George Chapman was approached in a friendly fashion by John Wolfall Sr.
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George Chapman spent the early 1590s abroad, and saw military action in the Low Countries fighting under renowned English general Sir Francis Vere.
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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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George Chapman's life was troubled by debt and his inability to find a patron whose fortunes did not decline: Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, and the Prince of Wales, Prince Henry both met their ends prematurely.
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George Chapman died in London, having lived his latter years in poverty and debt.
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George Chapman was buried at St Giles in the Fields.
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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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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.