ABSTRACT
Henslowe records five plays o f his in the years 1598-9 o f which none has survived, unless The World runs on Wheels is a first version o f All Fools. The loss is disastrous, and i t is felt more deeply in days when the greatness o f Chapman is becoming more ful ly realized. There is therefore an especial interest in whatever can furnish some measure o f compensat ion for the vanished 'tragedy o f Bengemens plotte' that Chapman wrote for Henslowe upon a scenario prepared by Ben Jonson, or the pastoral tragedy o f 1599 that would have shown us a Chapman engaged upon pure poetry in
dramatic form, innocent o f Stoic philosophy, an unknown Chapman indeed.
