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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.
"Fletcher seems to have preferred comedy as his genre, and this is certainly what he is best-known for. The first of the plays written in collaboration with Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) was The Woman-Hater (1607), but their most famous play was the uproariously-funny Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607) in which Beaumont and Fletcher, influenced of course by Cervantes, made fun of knight-errantry, heroic domestic drama like Thomas Heywood's Four Prentices of London, and the heroic verse of Shakespeare. They even satirized the audience, especially people who liked to sit on the stage and interfere with the play. After the immense success of this play, Beaumont and Fletcher never looked back. They had struck a close friendship, and a prosperous collaborative creative relationship. The two were so close, in fact, that John Aubrey reported that they even shared clothes sometimes. Their collaboration also produced Philaster (c.1609), a romantic mistaken-identity play, The Maid's Tragedy (c.1610), a play about murder and betrayal, and, finally, A King and No King (1611), a "black comedy" complete with incest and more mistaken identities, which somehow ends happily. It was a sad day for English theatre when Francis Beaumont died prematurely of a fever in 1616, the year of Shakespeare's death." | | Online Books Page
Find electronic texts including The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Fletcher & Beaumont), Philaster: or, Love Lies A-Bleeding (Fletcher & Beaumont), and The Two Noble Kinsmen (Fletcher & Shakespeare). | | Some Essays of Donne Criticism and Metaphysical Criticism
Although primarily a respository of literary analysis of the works of John Donne, this website also features studies of Beautmont and Fletcher, including Philaster, A King and No King, The Tragedie of Bonduca, and other works. | |
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