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His best-regarded work is Argalus and Parthenia (c. 1633, printed 1639), based upon Sidney's Arcadia. Other plays are the comedy The Hollander (licensed for performance March 12, 1636), Wit in a Constable (c. 1636–38), and the tragicomedy The Lady's Privilege (all printed 1640), and the historical tragedy Albertus Wallenstein (c. 1634–39, printed 1639), based on the famous general in the Thirty Years' War.

Glapthorne published a volume of Poems in 1639, including a series addressed to "Lucinda", and a poem titled "Whitehall", dedicated to Richard Lovelace, in 1643, among other minor works.

A collected edition of his work, The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne, was published in 1874. In 1883, editor A. H. Bullen attributed the anonymous play The Lady Mother, written c. 1633–35, to Glapthorne, an attribution that has been accepted by the consensus of critical opinion.

The play Revenge for Honour, first printed in 1654 and mis-attributed to George Chapman, may be another work by Glapthorne; it was entered into the Stationers' Register on November 29, 1653, as a Glapthorne work, under the title The Parricide, or Revenge for Honour. A play called The Parricide, likely the same work, was acted in 1624.

On July 1, 1642, his daughter Lovelace (probably named in honor of his friend Richard Lovelace) was baptized in the parish of St. Bride's, Fleet Street; the record also mentions the name of Glapthorne's wife, Susan. On March 23, 1643, Susan was buried in the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, having died the day before in Fetter Lane. The location of her death makes it certain that Henry Glapthorne is the "one Glapthorne, who lived in Fetter Lane", that on January 12, 1643 was identified to the House of Lords as the author of the tract His Maiesties Gracious Answer to The Message sent from the Honourable Citie of London, concerning Peace (1643). He, along with his printer Richard Herne and others, were supposed to be brought in to give evidence on the subject a few weeks later, but no further record has been found of what happened to him. Gerald Eades Bentley believes it is most likely he died before the Restoration.