The Mystification of George Chapman

""The Mystification of George Chapman" is gracefully written and firmly argued. Snare carefully dismantles a prevailing critical tradition that has confused Chapman's learning--which is real enough--with moral preoccupations and philosophical complexity. We are left instead with a portrait of the poet as a playful Ovidian writer, whose verse reveals unsuspected verbal density and elaboration. Snare illuminates the poems and restores them and Chapman to their proper tradition."--David Quint