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William Haughton | |
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| Born | DOB unknown England |
| Died | 1605 England |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Literary movement | English Renaissance theatre |
| Spouse | Alice |
William Haughton (died 1605) was an English playwright in the age of English Renaissance theatre. [1]
Most of what little biographical information there is about him is derived from the papers of Philip Henslowe, proprietor of the Rose Theatre. [1] Henslowe's earliest reference to him refers to him as "young" Haughton. He wrote all his known dramatic work for Henslowe, for production by the Admiral's Men and Worcester's Men. (Henslowe's papers refer to Haughton as Hawton, Hauton, Haughtoun, Haulton, Howghton, Horton, Harton, and Harvghton [2] —a fine example of the famously flexible Elizabethan orthography. His name is spelled Houghton in his 1605 will.)
On 10 March 1600 Henslowe lent Haughton ten shillings "to release him out of The Clink". [1]
A William Haughton received an M.A. from Oxford in 1604, but Baugh doubts that this was the playwright. Haughton made his will on 6 June 1605, with his sometime dramatic collaborator Wentworth Smith and one Elizabeth Lewes as witnesses. It was proved on 20 July 1605. He was of All Hallows Staining at that time, a London church whose tower survives. He left a widow Alice and children.
During the years 1597 to 1602 he collaborated in many plays with Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, John Day, Richard Hathwaye and Wentworth Smith. [1] Haughton's hand has also been sought in several anonymous plays of the period, including Wiley Beguiled, The Wit of a Woman, The Merry Devil of Edmonton , Captain Thomas Stukeley and A Warning For Fair Women.
A merry comedy entitled Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman will have her Will (1598) is ascribed to his sole authorship, and Fleay credits him with a considerable share in Patient Grissel (1599). [1] The latter attribution has been confirmed and refined by W. L. Halstead and by Cyrus Hoy (1980), giving the subplot concerning Sir Owen the Welsh Knight and his wife Gwenthyan, as well as that concerning the Duke's sister Julia and her three foolish suitors to Haughton, leaving the main plot to Dekker and Chettle.
The Devil and his Dame, mentioned as a forthcoming play by Henslowe in March 1600, is identified by Fleay as Grim the Collier of Croydon , which was printed in 1662. In this play an emissary is sent from the infernal regions to report on the conditions of married life on earth. [1] This attribution has recently been confirmed by William M Baillie (see below).
Grim is reprinted in vol. viii, and Englishmen for My Money iii, vol. 5, of WC Hazlitt's edition of Dodsley's Old Plays. Englishmen for My Money was edited in old-spelling by A. C. Baugh in 1917, and appeared as a Tudor Facsimile Text in 1911. Grim has been edited by William L. Baillie as part of A Choice Ternary of English Plays: Gratiae Theatrales (1984), and appeared as a Tudor Facsimile Text in 1912. Patient Grissell appears in Fredson Bowers' edition of Dekker's Dramatic Works. In May 1600 he brokered a play, now lost, to Henslowe called The English Fugitives, possibly based on Lewes Lewknor's The Estate of English Fugitives published in 1595.
Known plays by Haughton, either singly or in conjunction with others, include:
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1600.
This article lists notable literary events and publications in 1599.
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