Delphi Complete Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (Illustrated) (Series Five Book 21)

Regarded by some as second only to Shakespeare, the Jacobean dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher collaborated to produce some of the finest plays of the seventeenth century. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Beaumont and Fletcher’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)



* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Beaumont and Fletcher’s lives and works

* Concise introductions to the plays

* ALL 58 plays, with individual contents tables

* Features all the plays written with other collaborators, many appearing for the first time digital publishing

* Images of how the plays were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the Jacobean texts

* Excellent formatting of the plays

* Also includes the poetry of Beaumont and Fletcher

* Easily locate the poems or scenes you want to read

* Includes rare and disputed plays

* Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Beaumont and Fletcher’s contribution to literature

* Features two biographies - explore Beaumont and Fletcher’s Jacobean world

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres



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CONTENTS:



Beaumont’s Solo Plays

THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE

THE MASQUE OF THE INNER TEMPLE AND GRAY’S INN



Fletcher’s Solo Plays

THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS

VALENTINIAN

MONSIEUR THOMAS

THE WOMAN’S PRIZE; OR THE TAMER TAMED

BONDUCA

THE CHANCES

WIT WITHOUT MONEY

THE MAD LOVER

THE LOYAL SUBJECT

THE HUMOROUS LIEUTENANT

WOMEN PLEASED

THE ISLAND PRINCESS,

THE WILD GOOSE CHASE

THE PILGRIM

A WIFE FOR A MONTH

RULE A WIFE AND HAVE A WIFE



Beaumont and Fletcher’s Plays

THE WOMAN HATER

CUPID’S REVENGE

PHILASTER; OR LOVE LIES A-BLEEDING

THE MAID’S TRAGEDY

A KING AND NO KING

THE CAPTAIN

THE SCORNFUL LADY

LOVE’S PILGRIMAGE

THE NOBLE GENTLEMAN



Beaumont and Fletcher’s Plays Revised by Massinger

THIERRY AND THEODORET

THE COXCOMB

BEGGARS’ BUSH

LOVE’S CURE



Fletcher and Massinger’s Plays

SIR JOHN VAN OLDEN BARNAVELT

THE LITTLE FRENCH LAWYER

A VERY WOMAN; OR, THE PRINCE OF TARENT.

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE

THE FALSE ONE

THE PROPHETESS

THE SEA VOYAGE

THE SPANISH CURATE

THE LOVERS’ PROGRESS OR THE WANDERING LOVERS

THE ELDER BROTHER



Fletcher, Massinger and Field’s Plays

THE HONEST MAN’S FORTUNE

THE QUEEN OF CORINTH

THE KNIGHT OF MALTA



Fletcher and Shakespeare’s Plays

HENRY VIII

THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN

CARDENIO (LOST)



Fletcher, Middleton and Rowley’s Collaboration

WIT AT SEVERAL WEAPONS



Fletcher and Rowley’s Play

THE MAID IN THE MILL



Fletcher and Field’s Play

FOUR PLAYS; OR MORAL REPRESENTATIONS, IN ONE, MORALITY



Fletcher, Massinger, Jonson and Chapman’s Play

ROLLO DUKE OF NORMANDY; OR THE BLOODY BROTHER



Fletcher and Shirley’s Play

THE NIGHT WALKER; OR THE LITTLE THIEF



Contested Fletcher Plays

THE NICE VALOUR; OR THE PASSIONATE MADMAN

THE LAWS OF CANDY

THE FAIR MAID OF THE INN

THE FAITHFUL FRIENDS

THE CORONATION



The Poetry

BEAUMONT’S POETRY

FLETCHER’S POETRY

FIRST FOLIO COMMENDATORY VERSES

LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER



The Criticism

NOTES ON BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER by S. T. Coleridge

THE THREE MASTERPIECES by Walter W. Greg

THE THIRD DRAMATIC PERIOD by George Saintsbury

THE LATER ELIZABETHANS by Ashley H. Thorndike



The Biographies

FRANCIS BEAUMONT: DRAMATIST by Charles Mills Gayley

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER by Algernon Charles Swinburne and Margaret Bryant



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