George Chapman (1) (–1634)
Auteur de Bussy d'Ambois
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent George Chapman, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
George Chapman had a reputation in his own time for being a learned writer. On the payroll of the Elizabethan impresario, Philip Henslowe, he wrote for the Admiral's Men and was imprisoned with Ben Jonson for supposedly seditious theater. He translated the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer and completed afficher plus Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe. Chapman's works are full of humanist scholarship from classical sources, while his tragedies are mostly based on contemporary French history. In Bussy d'Ambois (1607), the best known of this series, the hero is the aspiring, stoic man who is doomed to extinction in a crass world. Chapman's comedies, which are much more lighthearted, experiment in the comedy of "humours" that Jonson was to perfect. The plays are mostly written for the boy companies. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de George Chapman
The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies [The Shoemaker's Holiday, Every Man In His Humour, Eastward Ho!] (Oxford… (2001) 87 exemplaires
Delphi Complete Poetry of George Chapman (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 71) (2017) 5 exemplaires
May-day, a comedie 3 exemplaires
The memorable maske of the two honorable houses or Innes of Court; the Middle Temple, and Lyncolns Inne As it was… 3 exemplaires
Sir Gyles Goosecappe knight, a comedie 3 exemplaires
The plays and poems of George Chapman: The Comedies 3 exemplaires
Poems and minor translations 3 exemplaires
The Tragedies of George Chapman 3 exemplaires
The warres of Pompey and Caesar 2 exemplaires
Homer, 2 vols. 2 exemplaires
Homer's Odyssey, 2 vols. 2 exemplaires
Mermaid Series (14 vols) 2 exemplaires
All fooles, and The gentleman usher 2 exemplaires
Homer's Hymns and Epigrams 2 exemplaires
Continuation of Hero and Leander [poem] 1 exemplaire
The Iliad 1 exemplaire
Old city manners : a comedy 1 exemplaire
Hero and Leander and Other Poems 1 exemplaire
The Battle of the Frogs and Mice 1 exemplaire
Dramatic Works vol 3 1 exemplaire
Regents Renaissance Drama 1 exemplaire
Charlemagne; or, The distracted emperor — Attributed author — 1 exemplaire
Monsieur d'Olive, a comedie 1 exemplaire
Comedies, Tragedies, Poems 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois; and The Atheist's… (1995) — Contributeur — 193 exemplaires
Héro et Léandre, suivi d'un poème (Le Berger passionné à sa bien-aimée) (1598) — quelques éditions — 82 exemplaires
Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments, 1605-1640 (World's Classics) (1995) — Auteur, quelques éditions — 66 exemplaires
Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica (Bollingen) (2008) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 23 exemplaires
The bloody brother : a tragedy, by John Fletcher and Nathan Field (circa 1616-17) and refurbished by Phillip Massinger… (1948) — attributed author, quelques éditions — 7 exemplaires
The ball, a comedy, by G. Chapman and J. Shirly — Attributed author, quelques éditions — 4 exemplaires
Alphonsus, emperor of Germany, reprinted in facsimile from the edition of 1654 — attributed author, quelques éditions — 3 exemplaires
Robert Chester's "Loves martyr, or, Rosalins complaint" : (1601) with its supplement, "Diverse poeticall essaies"… — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
The Ancient British drama, in three volumes — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Iliad (Chapman v. 1) — Traducteur — 1 exemplaire
The Iliad (Chapman - V. 2) — Traducteur — 1 exemplaire
The Odyssey (Chapman - v. 2) — Traducteur — 1 exemplaire
The Odysseys of Homer Translated According to the Greek, By George Chapman Volumes II (1897) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 1 exemplaire
Works Of George Chapman; Homer's Iliad And Odyssey Volume 3 (1875) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1559 (circa)
- Date de décès
- 1634-05-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
- Lieu de naissance
- Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
- Lieu du décès
- London, England
- Lieux de résidence
- Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
London, England - Études
- Oxford University
- Professions
- poet
dramatist
translator
Membres
Discussions
Iliad by George Chapman à Ancient History (Décembre 2016)
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 48
- Aussi par
- 23
- Membres
- 446
- Popularité
- #54,979
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 83
- Langues
- 2
The real-life Frith was charged with theft and a host of notoriously male behaviors - drunkenness, swearing, dueling, swaggering, and cross-dressing. Middleton and Dekker's Moll affects some of those behaviors but is presented sympathetically as an outspoken free-thinker transcending the rigid constraints of her class and gender. Such froward behavior attracts some undesired admirers to this "maddest, fantastical'st girl" (2.1.192) for her "heroic spirit and masculine womanhood" (2.1.336-7), but much of the play rehearses the knee-jerk attacks on one who "strays so from her kind [that] Nature repents she made her" (1.2.214-5). Her non-binary gender presentation is at the heart of her offense: "It is a thing One knows not how to name; . . . 'Tis woman more than man, Man more than woman, and . . . The sun gives her two shadows to one shape" (1.2.129-33). The fact that such attacks come from the play's senex, Sir Alexander Wengrave, who blocks a heterosexual pair of true lovers from wedded bliss, makes clear where the plot's sympathies rest.
The play offers Moll several memorable bits of stage business. Twice in act 3 when in male garb she draws her weapon to engage with and defeat male opponents. Then act 4 finds her placing a viol da gamba between her trousered legs to perform two songs about transgressive wives, and in act 5 she engages in a bout of "canting," a slang duel that ends with yet another song.
Her verbal climax comes earlier, in an articulate attack on a would-be seducer, the poorly endowed Laxton (lacks stone): "Thou'rt one of those That thinks each woman thy fond flexible whore. . . . What durst move you, sir, To think me whorish? . . . "Cause, you'll say, I'm given to sport, I'm often merry, jest? Had mirth no kindred in the world but lust? . . . I scorn to prostitute myself to a man, I that can prostitute a man to me. . . she that has wit and spirit May scorn to live beholding to her body for meat Or for apparel . . . Base is the mind that kneels unto her body . . . My spirit shall be mistress of this house As long as I have time in't" (3.1.72-140).
Though Moll is the play's featured character, her part in the love-plot is relatively small. It is mostly limited to unmasking plotters and dodging entrapment while allying with the young lover Sebastian Wengrave to cozen his father and marry his true love Mary (about whom the roaring girl says "I pitied her for name's sake, that a Moll Should be so crossed in love" (4.1.68-9). Much of the play is taken up with the misadventures of two city gallants, whose attempts to "wap, niggle and fadoodle" (5.1.189-95) with two housewives and bamboozle their husbands are thwarted by the wives themselves (as in Shakespeare's Merry Wives).
In the end, though this city comedy flirts with transgression at every turn, it ends up affirming heterosexual marriage and wifely wiles. Sir Alexander the senex apologizes for his errors and praises Moll as "a good wench" and the foxy housewives as "kind gentlewomen, whose sparkling presence Are glories set in marriage" (5.2.268-9). Perhaps the chief roarer speaks for her sisters as well as herself when she proclaims, "I please myself, and care not else who loves me" (5.1.332).… (plus d'informations)