HAUGHTON, WILLIAM (fi. 1598), English playwright, collaborated in many plays with Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, John Day and Richard Hathway. He was working for the Ad miral's Company from 1597 to 1602, and Philip Henslowe, on March io, 1600, lent him ten shillings "to release him out of the Clink." He had a share with Dekker and Chettle in The Patient Grissill , and Englishmen for my Money, or A Woman will have her Will (1598) is ascribed to his sole authorship.
Englishmen for my Money is reprinted in vol. x. of W. C. Hazlitt's edition of Dodsley's Old Plays; also by W. W. Greg (1912, Malone Society Reprints) , and by A. C. Baugh (1917) . A list of lost and doubtful plays in which Haughton had a share is given in E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, vol. iii. (1923) .