Sir Giles Goosecap

Sir Giles Goosecap, Knight is an early 17th-century comedy first published anonymously in 1606, and generally attributed to George Chapman.

The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 10 January 1606 and was published later that year in a quarto printed by John Windet for the bookseller Edward Blount.

The title page of the quarto states that the play was acted by the Children of the Chapel, a production that most likely occurred in the 1601–3 period.

(The Children of the Chapel were known by that name only in the company's first three years of existence, before the theatres closed in May 1603 due to an epidemic of bubonic plague.

Superficially, the play is a farce about "gulled knights and waggish servants," though it has also been perceived to possess deeper levels of meaning; critics have judged it a "rarefied, pedantic neo-platonic allegory" as well as "a modern dress version of the Troilus story, based primarily on Chaucer's account and on Estienne Tabourot's Les apothegmes du sieur Gaulard.