The complete online text of The Faithful Shepherdess 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...

1 This girl I've been seeing falls out of a tree one June evening. She's a little drunk-I bought a couple of bottles of hopefully decent Chardonnay from Trader Joe's on my way over to her house-and now she's a little drunk and...

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