The complete online text of Beggars Bush by Francis Beaumont.

The English playwright Francis Beaumont (ca. 1584-1616) was one of the major comic dramatists of the Jacobean period. Much of his work was done in collaboration with John Fletcher. Francis Beaumont was born to an old and distinguished Leicestershire fami...

The seventeenth-century editions of Francis Beaumont's poems include unattributed verse by other authors; thus, the canon is uncertain. For example, the 1653 edition and later collections include "A Song," which is the first two stanzas of John Donne's "...

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher began to work together as dramatists around 1606- 1607, and in the course of the next half-dozen years wrote some of the most successful plays of the Jacobean theater, plays that continued to hold the stage a century la...

Non-Shakespearean comedies during the early 17th century focused on crime and society. However, 'Beggars' Bush,' 'A Jovial Crew' and 'The Sisters,' differ from the conventional non-Shakespearean comedies because they present theft and witty intrigue in a different light. While other plays show the cynical...

Wilson Harris, The Mank of the Beggar. Faber & Faber, 2003. 172 pp. £16.99. The Mask of the Beggar, Wilson Harris's twenty-fourth novel, can be read as a recapitulation of what he has been voicing (in that peculiarly personal rhythm of his prose)...