Georgios Chortatzis or Chortatsis (; c. 1545 – c. 1610) was a Greek

dramatist A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwri ...

in Cretan verse. He was, along with Vitsentzos Kornaros, one of the main representatives of a school of literature in the

vernacular Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken language, spoken form of language, particularly when perceptual dialectology, perceived as having lower social status or less Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige than standard language, which is mor ...

Cretan dialect that flourished in the late 16th and early 17th centuries under Venetian rule. His best-known work is '' Erofili'' (or ''Erophile''), a

tragedy A tragedy is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a tragic hero, main character or cast of characters. Traditionally, the intention of tragedy is to invoke an accompanying catharsi ...

set in Egypt.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chortatzis, Georgios 1540s births 1610 deaths People from Rethymno Greek dramatists and playwrights Dramatists and playwrights from the Republic of Venice People from the Kingdom of Candia Cretan poets Cretan Renaissance literature