HAUGIITO\, WILLIAM, a dramatic writer, was probably some what the junior of Shekel:ere. In Heualowe's Diary, under the date of November 1597, he is called ' Young Naughton :' and his name occurs frequently in that curious record, till the end of the year 1600, but not later. In March 1599 Henslowe lent him ten shillings to pay a debt, for which he then lay in the Clink prison ; and cow staid, advances of small sums, in earnest of the price of dramas which he was writing for the old manager, show him to have been as poor or improvident as moat of his fellow-playwrights. He wrote several plays unassisted ; in others his coadjutors were Chettle, Day, and still more frequently Dekker, with whom indeed he seems to have stood iu particularly close relations. In 1600 there was licensed a tragedy of his, not preserved, called 'Ferree and l'orrex ;' and Mr. Collier has conjectured that Haughton 'a 'Devil and his Dam; described as iu pro gress about the same time, may have been an alteration of ' Grim, the Collier of Croydon.' The same critic is more confident in believing that 'The Spanish Moor's Tragedy,' for which, in February 1600 Henslowe made to Dekker, Ilaughton, and Day a payment of three pounds to account, was the wild tragedy called 'Lust's Dominion,' which was printed for the first time in 1657, and has been inserted (without reason) in the recent edition of Marlowe's works. But the
only extant plays iu which Haughton was certainly concerned are two. 1, lie was sole author of the lively comedy called ' Englishmen for My Money ; or, a Woman will have her Will,' which (under the latter title) appears in Henelowe's book in 1593. It was printed ia 1616, 1626, and 1631, and has been reprinted in a small collection called 'The Old English Drama,' 1330,4 vols. 12ino. 2, Dekker, Haughton, and Chettle were jointly the authors of 'The Pleasant Comodie of Patient Orissill,' entered at Stationers Hall in March, 1600, printed in 1603, and reprinted from a very rare copy by the Shakespeare Society in left.