Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher

Six.--_The Coxcombe_ was first printed in the folio of 1647. Our earliest record of its acting is of a performance at Court by the Children of the Queen's Revels in 1612.[214] T...

Four.--_The Woman-Hater_ was entered in the Stationers' Registers, May 20, 1607, and published in quarto (twice, with but slight variation) the same year "as lately acted by the...

Beaumont and Fletcher may have been friends by 1603 or 1604,--in all likelihood, as early as 1605 when, as we have seen, Drayton and other "southern Shepherds" were by way of vi...

Beaumont and Fletcher, portraits of, 190-192, 217-219; collaboration of (in general), 3-9, 223-416; the problem, 225-233; critical apparatus, 233-235; folios, 225-229, 236-239;...

Beaumont's poetic virtues are his peculiar treasure; but the dramatic method of his heroic-romantic plays lent itself lightly to imitation and debasement. Not so much _The Maide...

Glimpses of the more personal relations of Beaumont with the world of rank and fashion, and to some extent of his character, are vouchsafed us in the few non-dramatic verses tha...

Of royal patronage we have had evidence in the fact that during the festivities of October 16, 1612 to March 1, 1613, no fewer than five of the Beaumont-Fletcher plays were pres...

Francis Beaumont, the dramatist, came of the younger line of an ancient and distinguished family of Anglo-Norman descent in which there had been Barons de Beaumont from the begi...

As we shall presently see, Beaumont during his career in London retained his connection with the Inner Temple, which would be his club; and it may be presumed that up to 1606 or...

In the 1653 edition of the "Poems; By Francis Beaumont, Gent." there is one, ordinarily regarded as of doubtful authorship, which, in default of information to the contrary, I a...

The career of the Beaumonts at the University was shortened by the death of their father, some fourteen months after their admission. Henry had been entered of the Inner Temple,...

Certain political events of the years 1603 to 1606 must have occasioned the young Beaumonts intimate and poignant concern. Their own family was, of course, Protestant, but it wa...

The verse criterion is, however, not of itself a reagent sufficient to precipitate fully the Beaumont of the joint-plays. For there still exists the certainty that in plotting p...

Our poet's contemporaries saw him, not as one of my scholarly friends, Professor Herford, judging apparently from the crude engraving of 1711,[121] or from that of 1812, sees hi...

The studies of the most experienced critics into the peculiarities of Fletcher's blank verse as displayed in productions of the popular dramatic kind, indubitably written by him...

Much of the confusion which existed in the minds of readers and critics during the period following the Restoration concerning the respective productivity of Beaumont and Fletch...

Beside the dramas which there is any meritorious reason for assigning to the joint-authorship of the two friends, some dozen plays were produced by Fletcher alone, or in collabo...

The friendship between Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher may have commenced at any time after Francis became a member of the Inner Temple, in 1600,--probably not later than 160...

Eleven.--The first quarto of _The Scornful Ladie_, entered S. R., March 19, 1616, assigns the play to Beaumont and Fletcher, and says that it "was acted with great applause by t...

Richard Flecknoe, in his _Discourse of the English Stage_, 1664, thinking rather of the romantic and ornamented quality of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays, "full of fine flowers,"...

From a consideration of Beaumont's work in his poems, in his _Maske_ and _Woman-Hater_, and such portions of the three unquestioned Beaumont-Fletcher plays as are marked by his...

Though the young poets did not begin to write for the King's Men before 1609, it is impossible that they should not have met Shakespeare, face to face, earlier in the century, w...

From passages in the indubitable metrical manner and rhetorical style of Beaumont we pass to a still further test by which to determine his share in doubtful passages--I mean hi...

Of the eleven plays, then, from which one may try to draw conclusions concerning the respective dramatic qualities of Beaumont and Fletcher during the period of their collaborat...

With the tests which have thus been described we are equipped for an examination of the plays written before 1616, which have, in these latter days, been with some show of evide...

"Among those of our dramatists who either were contemporaries of Shakespeare or came after him, it would be impossible to name more than three to whom the predilection or the li...

The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Cus...

Christopher Brooke of Lincoln's Inn enters the circle of Beaumont's associates not only as the advocate to whom Beaumont's friends in Shakespeare's company of actors turn for co...

What we learn from tradition, and from the criticism of the century following Beaumont's death, adds little to what we already have observed concerning his life and personality....

From the study of Fletcher's unaided plays we arrive at a still further criterion for the determination of his share in the joint-plays,--his stock of ideas concerning life, his...

feminine caesura measures fairly the relative elasticity of the versifiers. It regulates two-thirds of Fletcher's lines; but of his collaborator's not quite one half. Fletcher,...

| Henry, 3 Baron de Beaumont, fl. 1363; d. 1370 | John, 4 Baron de Beaumont, fl. 1384; d. 1397 Thomas, | Ld. Bardolph +------+--------------+ | | | | Henry, 5 Baron de Sir Thoma...

This is my fatal hour; heaven may forgive My rash attempt, that causelessly hath laid Griefs on me that will never let me rest, And put a Woman's heart into my brest. It is more...

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which by metrical tests are Fletcher's, are precisely the prose of Fletcher's Dion in Act II, Scene 4 and Act V, Scene 3 of _Philaster_, and the tricks of alliteration, triplet,...

Labours, especially of that full and haightened stile of Maister _Chapman_: The labour'd and understanding workes of maister _Jonson_: The no lesse worthy composures of the both...