1st Edition

Beaumont and Fletcher A Critical Study

By William W. Appleton Copyright 1956
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

William W. Appleton