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George Chapman (Critical Survey of Drama)

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George Chapman was a poet and scholar as well as a playwright. His literary career began with the publication of the poem The Shadow of Night in 1594 and included the completion of a poem begun by Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander (1598). Chapman seemed to have been proudest of his achievements as a self-taught scholar. He translated Homer’s Iliad (c. 800 b.c.e.; part of book 18...

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