CRITICISM

Bronfman, Judith. “Griselda, Renaissance Woman.” In Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon, edited by Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky, pp. 211-23. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990.

Includes a brief discussion of Patient Grissil, focusing on its exploration of the issues of class prejudice and sovereignty in marriage.

Carson, Neil. “Collaborative Playwriting: The Chettle, Dekker, Heywood Syndicate.” Theatre Research International 14, no. 1 (spring 1989): 13-23.

Analyzes the activities of Chettle, Thomas Dekker, and Thomas Heywood and their casual work arrangements as collaborators on numerous plays.

Chillington, Carol A. “Playwrights at Work: Henslowe's, Not Shakespeare's, Book of Sir Thomas More.” English Literary Renaissance 10, no. 3 (autumn 1980): 439-79.

Attempts to reconstruct the process by which Book of Sir Thomas More was written in order to identify who was responsible for what aspects of its composition.

Comensoli, Viviana. “Refashioning the Marriage Code: The Patient Grissil of Dekker, Chettle and Haughton.” Renaissance and Reformation 25, no. 2 (1989): 199-214.

Discusses Patient Grissil's complex treatment of family, male-female relations, social rank, and social conflicts.

Dean, Paul. “Forms of Time: Some Elizabethan Two-Part History Plays.” Renaissance Studies 4, no. 4 (1990): 410-30.

Examines the relationship between history and romance in two-part plays, including Munday and Chettle's Downfall and Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon.

Dunworth, Felicity. “A ‘bosom burnt up with desires’: The Trials of Patient Griselda on the Elizabethan Stage.” Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory 21, no. 3 (November 1998): 330-53.

Considers the representation and reception of the mother figure on the Elizabethan stage as presented in two versions of Patient Grissil: that by Chettle and his collaborators and another by the Protestant polemicist John Phillip.

Jenkins, Harold. The Life and Work of Henry Chettle. London, England: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1934, 276 p.

Early, important study of Chettle's life and work; includes a biographical and critical overview and chapters on the nondramatic works and individual plays.

Jowett, John. “Henry Chettle and the Original Text of Sir Thomas More.” In Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More: Essays on the Play and Its Shakespearian Interest, edited by T. H. Howard-Hill, pp. 131-49. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Discusses Chettle's role in the composition of Sir Thomas More.

———. “Henry Chettle and the First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet.” Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 92, no. 1 (March 1998): 53-74.

Argues that the printing process often related directly to the theatrical realization of the stage directions, and thus that Chettle made some contribution to one edition of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Keyishian, Harry. “Griselda on the Elizabethan Stage: The Patient Grissil of Chettle, Dekker, and Haughton.” Studies in English Literature 16, no. 2 (spring 1976): 253-61.

Describes some of the ways in which Chettle and his collaborators Thomas Dekker and William Haughton organized their material and overcame difficulties in writing Patient Grissil.

Levin, Carole. “‘Lust being Lord, there is no trust in kings’: Passion, King John, and the Responsibilities of Kingship.” In Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama, edited by Carole Levin and Karen Robertson, pp. 255-78. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.

Includes brief comments on the historical basis of and thematic concerns of Chettle and Munday's Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon.

Nelson, M. A. “The Earl of Huntington: The Renaissance Plays.” In Robin Hood: An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism, edited by Stephen Knight, pp. 99-121. Cambridge, Mass.: D. S. Brewer, 1999.

Includes a discussion of Chettle's part in the composition of The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon.

Additional coverage of Chettle's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 136; Literature Resource Center; and Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2.