The year 1614, when the _Odyssey_ was completed, marks the culminating point of Chapman's literary activity. Henceforward, partly perhaps owing to the disappointment of his hopes through Prince Henry's death, his production was more intermittent. Translations of the _Homeric Hymns_, of the _Georgicks_ of Hesiod, and other classical writings, mainly occupy the period till 1631. In that year he printed another tragedy, _Cæsar and Pompey_, which, however, as we learn from the dedication, had been written "long since." The remaining plays with which his name has been connected did not appear during his lifetime. A comedy, _The Ball_, licensed in 1632, but not published till 1639, has the names of Chapman and Shirley on the title-page, but the latter was certainly its main author. Another play, however, issued in the same year, and ascribed to the same hands, _The Tragedie of Chabot, Admiral of France_ makes the impression, from its subject-matter and its style, of being chiefly due to Chapman. In 1654 two tragedies, _Alphonsus Emperour of Germany_ and _The Revenge for Honour_, were separately published under Chapman's name. Their authorship, however, is doubtful. There is nothing in the style or diction of _Alphonsus_ which resembles Chapman's undisputed work, and it is hard to believe that he had a hand in it. _The Revenge for Honour_ is on an Oriental theme, entirely different from those handled by Chapman in his other tragedies, and the versification is marked by a greater frequency of feminine endings than is usual with him; but phrases and thoughts occur which may be paralleled from his plays, and the work may be from his hand. On May 12, 1634, he died, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Giles's in the Field, where his friend Inigo Jones erected a monument to his memory. According to Wood, he was a person of "most reverend aspect, religious and temperate, qualities rarely meeting in a poet." Though his material success seems to have been small, he gained the friendship of many of the most illustrious spirits of his time--Essex, Prince Henry, Bacon, Jonson, Webster, among the number--and it has been his good fortune to draw in after years splendid tributes from such successors in the poetic art as Keats and A. C. Swinburne. FOOTNOTES: [v-1] This Biography was written before the appearance of Mr. Acheson's volume, _Shakespeare and the Rival Poet_. Without endorsing all his arguments or conclusions, I hold that Mr. Acheson has proved that Shakespeare in a number of his Sonnets refers to these earlier poems of Chapman's. He has thus brought almost conclusive evidence in support of Minto's identification of Shakespeare's rival with Chapman--a conjecture with which I, in 1896, expressed strong sympathy in my _Shakspere and his Predecessors_.