Editing Henry Chettle (section)

==Works==
As early as 1598 [[Francis Meres]] includes Chettle in his ''Palladis Tamia'' as one of the "best for comedy", and Henslowe lists payments to him for thirty-six plays between 1598 and 1603, and he may have been involved in as many as fifty plays, although only a dozen seem to be his alone. Chettle had regular association with [[Henry Porter (playwright)|Henry Porter]], [[Thomas Dekker (poet)|Thomas Dekker]], and after 1600 with [[John Day (dramatist)|John Day]]. Of the thirteen plays usually attributed to Chettle's sole authorship only one was printed. This was ''[[The Tragedy of Hoffmann]]: or a Revenge for a Father'' (played 1602; printed 1631). It has been suggested that this piece was put forward as a rival to Shakespeare's ''[[Hamlet]]''.

Chettle's non-dramatic writings include (besides ''Kind Heart's Dream'') ''Piers Plainnes Seaven Yeres Prentiship'' (1595), the story of a fictitious apprenticeship in [[Crete]] and [[Thrace]], and ''England's Mourning Garment'' (1603), in which are included some verses alluding to the chief poets of the time.