Chettle, Henry | Shakespeare Newsletter (essay date December 1970)
Shakespeare Newsletter (essay date December 1970)
SOURCE: “Chettle's Forgery of the Groatsworth of Wit and the ‘Shake-scene’ Passage.” Shakespeare Newsletter 20, no. 6 (December 1970): 42.
[In the following essay, the anonymous critic analyzes the evidence that Greene's Groatsworth of Wit is a forgery perpetrated by Chettle.]
Last April 1969 what may turn out to be one of the three most significant contributions to Shakespearean scholarship in this century was published as Final Report: Project No. 7-0-036: Grant No. OEG-1-7-070036-4593 (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, Bureau of Research, April, 1969) A Computer-Aided Technique for Stylistic Discrimination—The Authorship of Greene's Groatsworth of Wit.
In 1909 Dr. Charles William Wallace and his wife discovered the Bellot-Mountjoy papers, 26 depositions including one from Shakespeare containing his signature....
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