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...

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...

Great pair of authors, whom one equal star Begot so like in genius, that you are In fame, as well as writings, both so knit That no man knows where to divide your wit --Jasper Mayne, from the preface to the 1647 Beaumont...

The most anxious and confrontational political statement in the 1647 folio of the plays of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher is a blank space. In one of many prefatory poems by many authors, Thomas Peyton expresses his fear that his praise of Fletcher...

In the following essay, Waith provides a detailed critical survey of Beaumont and Fletcher's tragicomedies, finding in them an essential "pattern of dramatic entertainment."

In the following essay, Danby explores the ways in which Philaster reflects the concerns and tastes of an aristocratic audience.

In the following essay, Turner examines The Faithful Shepherdess, Philaster, and A King and No King in light of tragicomic depictions of heroism and "extravagant passion."