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William Haughton (d. 1605), was an English playwright in the age of English Renaissance theatre. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation and the closure of the theatres in 1642. During the years 1597 to 1602 he collaborated in many plays with Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, John Day, Richard Hathwaye and Wentworth Smith. Henry Chettle (c 1564 &ndash c 1607 was an English Dramatist and miscellaneous writer of the Elizabethan era. Thomas Dekker is the name of Thomas Dekker (writer (1572&ndash1632 Elizabethan poet and dramatist Thomas Dekker (actor (born 1987 John Day (1574 &ndash 1640? was an English Dramatist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods Richard Hathwaye (fl 1597 - 1603 was an English Dramatist. Little is known about Hathwaye's life Wentworth Smith (1571 - c1623 was a minor English Dramatist of the Elizabethan period who may have been responsible for some of the plays in the

Most of what little biographical information about him is derived from the papers of Philip Henslowe, proprietor of the Rose Theatre. 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. The Admiral's Men (also called the Admiral's company, more strictly the Earl of Nottingham's Men; after 1603, Prince Henry's Men; after The Earl of Worcester's Men was an acting company in Renaissance England. (Henslowe's papers refere to Haughton as Hawton, Hauton, Haughtoun, Haulton, Howghton, Horton, Harton, and Harvghton[1] — a fine example of the famously flexible Elizabethan orthography. His name is spelled Houghton in his 1605 will. )

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). Englishmen for My Money or A Woman Will Have Her Will is an Elizabethan era stage play a Comedy written by William Haughton that dates from Patient Grissel is a play by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton. 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.

On March 10, 1600 Henslowe lent Haughton ten shillings "to release him out of the Clink. Events 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing The shilling is a unit of Currency used in current and former Commonwealth countries and was continued to be used in countries that left the commonwealth The Clink was a notorious Prison in Southwark, England which functioned from the 12th century until 1780 either deriving its name "

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. Frederick Gard Fleay (1831 &ndash 1909 was an influential and prolific nineteenth-century Shakespeare scholar Grim the Collier of Croyden or The Devil and his Dame with the Devil and Saint Dunston is a seventeenth-century play of uncertain authorship first published in 1662 In this play an emissary is sent from the infernal regions to report on the conditions of married life on earth. 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. William Hazlitt ( 10 April 1778 &ndash 18 September 1830) was an English Writer remembered for his humanistic Essays and Robert Dodsley ( 1703 - September 23, 1764) was an English Bookseller and miscellaneous writer 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.

Haughton made his will on June 6, 1605, with his sometime dramatic collaborator Wentworth Smith and one Elizabeth Lewes as witnesses. It was proved July 20, 1605. He was of Allhallows, Stainings, at that time. He left a widow Alice and children.

Known plays by Haughton, either singly or in conjunction with others, include:

  1. Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman Will Have Her Will. Englishmen for My Money or A Woman Will Have Her Will is an Elizabethan era stage play a Comedy written by William Haughton that dates from Stationers' Register entry August 3, 1601. The Stationers' Register was a record book maintained by the Stationers' Company of London Printed 161, 1626, 1631.
  2. The Poor Man's Paradise, August 1599. Not printed; possibly not finished.
  3. Cox of Collumpton, with Day, November 1599. Not printed, although an eyewitness report of a performance survives in Simon Foreman's casebook.
  4. Thomas Merry, or Beech's Tragedy, with Day, November-December 1599. Not printed. It has been suggested that this survives as part of Yarington's Two Lamentable Tragedies, though this is more likely to be an analog handling the same murder.
  5. The Arcadian Virgin, with Chettle, December 1599. Not printed; possibly not finished.
  6. Patient Grissel, with Chettle and Dekker, October-December 1599. Patient Grissel is a play by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton.
  7. The Spanish Moor's Tragedy, with Day and Dekker, February 1600. Not Printed; possibly not finished, though it is now usually identified with Lust's Dominion from the Dekker canon.
  8. The Seven Wise Masters, with Chettle, Day, and Dekker, March 1600. Not printed.
  9. Ferrex and Porrex, March-April 1600. Not printed.
  10. The English Fugitives, April 1600. Not printed; possibly not finished.
  11. The Devil and His Dame, May 1600. Probably the extant anonymous play Grim the Collier of Croydon. Grim the Collier of Croyden or The Devil and his Dame with the Devil and Saint Dunston is a seventeenth-century play of uncertain authorship first published in 1662
  12. Strange News Out of Poland, with "Mr. Pett," possibly Peter Pett, May 1600. Not printed.
  13. Judas, May 1600; apparently finished by William Bird and Samuel Rowley, December 1601. William Byrd (c 1540 &ndash 4 July 1623 was an English Composer of the Renaissance. Samuel Rowley was a 17th century English Dramatist and Actor. Not printed.
  14. Robin Hood's Pennorths, December 1600-January 1601. Not printed; possibly not finished.
  15. The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, Part II, with John Day, January-July 1601. Not printed.
  16. The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, Part III, with John Day, January-July 1601. Not printed.
  17. The Conquest of the West Indies, with Day and Smith, April-September 1601. Not printed.
  18. The Six Yeomen of the West, with Day, May-June 1601. Not printed.
  19. Friar Rush and the Proud Woman of Antwerp, with Chettle and Day, July 1601-January 1602. Not printed.
  20. Tom Dough, Part II, with Day, July-September 1601. Not printed; possibly not finished.
  21. The Six Clothiers, Part I, with Richard Hathwaye and Wentworth Smith, October-November 1601. Not printed.
  22. The Six Clothiers, Part II, with Hathwaye and Smith, October-November 1601. Not printed; possibly not finished.
  23. William Cartwright, September 1602. Not printed; possibly not finished.

Haughton's hand has 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.

References

  1. ^ Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1866&ndash1954 was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 3, p. 334.
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