...In Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman, authority is in flux again and here metadrama bites both ways as its usurping and informing metadramatic actors are punished by hidden audiences. Although the play’s metadramatic structure initially facilitates the active power of the vengeful...

... to be Greene's deathbed repentance appeared in 1592, soon after his death. Greene had told his story one last time. It sounded just like something he would do. The trouble is that the confession fit expectations so perfectly that it did not need Greene to write it. Most scholars now believe that Henry Chettle...

... are found in Seneca’s Thyestes and Troades, Jonson’s Catiline, Chettle’s Hoffman, and (most extensively) Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge. defiance and defying fame oaths Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso revenge Shakespeare...