Plays And Poems: All Fooles; Bussy D'ambois; the Widdowes Teares; Selected Poems (Penguin Classics: Penguin Dramatists S.) - Softcover
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George Chapman pioneered many of the most important genres in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Bussy D'Ambois, a bloodthirsty tale of an utterly uncompromising French adventurer, was England's first heroic tragedy. All Fooles precedes Ben Jonson in creating a comedy of intrigue which captures the atmosphere of a rapidly expanding London. The Widdowes Teares, a savage story of a man who pretends to be dead so he can woo his wife in the guise of her husband's murderer, created the vogue for tragi-comedies. This volume also contains a selection of Chapman's celebrated poetry
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George Chapman (1559-1634) emerged as a poet in 1594 and then as a dramatist in 1596. He was associated with a group of 'freethinkers' that included Sir Walter Ralegh & Christopher Marlowe. He was friends with Ben Jonson and is best remembered for The Whole Works of Homer, referred to by Keats in On first looking into Chapman's Homer.
Jonathan Hudston works as journalist for BBC South West.
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