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| 4/14/1607 |
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Beaumont & Fletcher & Woman-Hating
Throughout the 1600s, plays by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were produced and praised at four or five times the rate of Shakespeare's plays. If this popularity does not catch our attention, the plays do: in The Woman-Hater, A Wife for a Month, Cupid's Revenge, The Mad Lover and many more such, misogyny, chastity, rape, necrophilia and nymphomania are given every possible comic and tragic twist, often at the same time. . . . |
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| 10/31/1611 |
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Beaumont, Fletcher, Maids
On this day in 1611 The Maid's Tragedy, by Francis Beaumont (left) and John Fletcher, was entered in the Stationers' Register. Beaumont and Fletcher dominated English theater throughout the 17th century; many of their plays were the sex-murder "stews" so popular at the time, but they were produced and praised at four or five times the rate of Shakespeare's plays, and contemporaries placed Fletcher in a "triumvirate of wit" with Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. |
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Bartleby.com
Find literary criticism and analysis from the online electronic text of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907–21). The chapter outline is as follows:
New influences on the Drama
Abandonment of Tragedy for Tragi-comedy; Lowering of moral standards
Contemporary appreciation of Beaumont and Fletcher's work
Biographies and early intimacy of the two Dramatists; Individual characteristics
Evidence as to authorship
Fletcher's Metrical Style: comparison with that of Shakespeare
Features assignable to Beaumont
Massinger's collaboration with Fletcher
Excellence of Fletcher's stage effects
His weakness in characterisation
Sources of his plays
Rapidity of production; Classification of the Plays
Tragedies; Romantic Dramas
Comedies
Qualities of language and style in Beaumont and Fletcher's plays |  | Luminarium.org
Find a biography, bibliography, and links to a variety of resources, including essays, biographical information, and quotes from Bartlett's Quotations which include Philaster, The Maid's Tragedy, A King and No King, Scornful Lady, and The Little French Lawyer. | | Online Books Page
Find electronic texts of The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Beaumont & Fletcher), Philaster: or, Love Lies A-Bleeding (Beaumont & Fletcher), and Salmacis and Hermaphroditus. | | TheatreHistory.com
Read a biography from the 1911 anthology Chief Elizabethan Dramatists.
"His collaboration with Fletcher began early, and seems to have been brought about by personal preference, not, like most collaboration at that time, by the exigencies of the theatrical manager. ... Their joint-production seems to have begun about 1605, and there is no evidence that Beaumont wrote any plays after 1612. About 1613 he married, and three years later died and was buried in Westminster Abbey. He had achieved a high contemporary reputation for his non-dramatic poetry, but he survives as a dramatist." | |
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