1598-1615

Updated: May 16, 2025

Marlowe's continuator, Chapman, wrote a number of plays, but he is best remembered by his royal translation of Homer, issued in parts from 1598-1615. This was not so much a literal translation of the Greek, as a great Elizabethan poem, inspired by Homer.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson