Who is Beaumont And Fletcher

Beaumont and Fletcher were the English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, who collaborated in their writing during the reign of James I (1603–25).

They became known as a team early in their association, so much so that their joined names were applied to the total canon of Fletcher, including his solo works and the plays he composed with various other collaborators including Philip Massinger and Nathan Field.

The first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647 contained 35 plays; 53 plays were included in the second folio in 1679. Other works bring the total plays in the canon to about 55. While scholars and critics will probably never render a unanimous verdict on the authorship of all these plays—especially given the difficulties of some of the individual cases...
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Beaumont And Fletcher Poems

  • Unfolding The Flocks
    Shepherds, rise, and shake off sleep -
    See the blushing morn doth peep
    Through your windows, while the sun
    To the mountain-tops has run, ...
  • Song - Shake Off Your Heavy Trance
    Shake off your heavy trance,
    And leap into a dance,
    Such as no mortals use to tread,
    Fit only for Apollo - ...
  • Bonduca
    {Bonduca the British queen, taking occasion from a defeat of the Romans to impeach their valor, is rebuked by Caratac.}

    Queen Bonduca, I do not grieve your fortune.
    If I grieve, 'tis at the bearing of your fortunes; ...
  • Folding The Flocks
    Shepherds all, and maidens fair,
    Fold your flocks up; for the air
    'Gins to thicken, and the sun
    Already his great course hath run. ...
  • Sleep - (from Valentinian)
    Care-charming sleep, thou easer of all woes,
    Brother to death; sweetly thyself dispose
    On this afflicted prince; fall, like a cloud,
    In gentle showers; give nothing that is loud...
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Eoin_price: so my talk on thursday was about the two noble kinsmen as part of the beaumont & fletcher canon. and look what we saw yesterday
Eoin_price: this is on today (and apparently on youtube - société française shakespeare). today i am talking about beaumont and fletcher, the famous authors of, um the two noble kinsmen.
Fadel53ztm: a king and no king: beaumont and fletcher (the revels plays) qasbcog
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