Georgius Chapmanus

Georgius Chapmanus, vulgo George Chapman (natus in oppido Hitchin Hertfordiensis comitatus anno circiter 1559; mortuus die 12 Maii 1634) fuit miles regni Angliae, poëta scriptorque scaenicus Anglicus, et interpres textuum Graecorum. Versio Odysseae, quam ille primus Anglice vertit, saepissime laudata est.

Georgius Chapmanus sicut in frontispicio The Whole Works of Homer (1616) depingitur

Fontes

• A. R. Braunmuller, A Seventeenth Century Letter-Book: A Facsimile Edition of Folger MS. V. A. 321 (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983) p. 395 (petitio Chapmani ob impecuniositatem suam)

Nexus externi

• Opera nonnulla apud gutenberg.org
• Ludi nonnulli apud English Prose Drama

Bibliographia

Editiones operum

• Chapman, George. The Tragedies, with Sir Gyles Goosecappe. Ed. Allan Holaday. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987. vol. 2 of The Plays of George Chapman. 2 vols. 1970-87.
• ---. The Comedies. Ed. Allan Holaday. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. vol. 1 of The Plays of George Chapman. 2 vols. 1970-87.
• ---. The Poems of George Chapman. Ed. Phyllis Brooks Bartlett. New-York: Modern Language Association of America, 1941.
• ---. Selected Poems. Ed. Eirian Wain. Manchester: Carcanet - Fyfield Books, 1978.
• Chapman, George, trans. The Works of George Chapman: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Ed. Richard Herne Shepherd. London: Chatto & Windus, 1875.
• ---. George Chapman's Minor Translations: A Critical Edition of His Renderings of Musæus, Hesiod and Juvenal. Ed. Richard Corballis. Salzburg Studies in English Literature: Jacobean Drama Studies, 98. Salzbourg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1984.
• ---. Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams, Hesiod's Works and Days, Musæus' Hero and Leander, Juvenal's Fifth Satire. Ed. Richard Hooper. London: John Russel Smith, 1858.

Historica et critica

• Mark Eccles, "Chapman's Early Years" in Studies in Philology vol. 43 (1946) pp. 176-193
• Steven Matthews, "T. S. Eliot's Chapman: 'Metaphysical' Poetry and Beyond." Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 29 No. 4 (Summer 2006), pp. 22-43
• R. Ornstein, "The dates of Chapmans Tragedies, once more" in Modern Philology (1961)
• E. Schwartz, "The date of Chapman’s Byron Plays" in Modern Philology (1961)
• W. Wieler, George Chapman. The effect of stoicism upon his tragedies. New York: Kings Crown Press, 1949.

Opera Georgii Chapmani

Scriptores scaenici Anglici: aevum litterarum renascentium