Beaumont and Fletcher: A Critical Study

by William W. Appleton

Overview

First published in 1956, Beaumont and Fletcher offers a compact critical survey of the plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, as well as Fletcher's collaborations with Massinger and Shakespeare.For a hundred years audiences and readers ranked Beaumont and Fletcher with Ben Johnson and with Shakespeare. The successors to Shakespeare as leading dramatists for The King's Men, they set the tone for the Jacobean drama. Consequently, this study of their plays illuminates not only the stage of their time but the period as a whole. It attempts to measure their impact on the Jacobean and Restoration theatre, their subsequent reputation, and their relevance to the theatre of today. It offers to lovers of the theatre an overall view of the two playwrights’ achievement. For the general reader it provides an insight into a period of exceptional interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781041108320
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/29/2025
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Apprentice Dramatists 2. The Collaboration 3. Fletcher's Unaided Work 4. Fletcher's Later Collaborations 5. Beaumont and Fletcher in the Restoration 6. Beaumont and Fletcher Since 1700 Checklist of Plays A Selected Bibliography Index