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Francis Beaumont: Dramatist / A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, / And of His Association with John Fletcher

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By Charles Mills Gayley
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A detailed scholarly portrait of Francis Beaumont traces his family background, education, social and literary circles, and his close professional partnership with John Fletcher, situating their collaboration within Elizabethan and Jacobean theatrical life. The first part reconstructs biography, acquaintances, and contemporary relations with other dramatists and patrons; the second part applies critical and quantitative methods to attribute authorship, examine versification, diction, and mental habits, and assess disputed plays. Throughout, the author balances archival research, portraiture of theatrical milieu, and formal analysis to characterize Beaumont's dramatic manner, collaborative practice, and the plays' artistic features and influences.

Transcriber's Note:

Minor punctuation and capitalization inconsistencies have been corrected without comment and include adding missing opening or closing quotes, closing parenthesis, and sentence closing periods.

Images falling within an unbroken paragraph have been relocated to either the top or bottom of said paragraph.

Word spelling, hyphenation, abbreviation, capitalization, apostrophization, diacritical accents and other variations or inconsistencies occur throughout the authors text, footnotes, index, noted verse(s) and quoted materials. All have been retained as printed unless specifically noted. Examples are provided below.

Typographical corrections:

  • p. 17, "Holme-Pierpoint" to "Holme-Pierrepoint" (5) Holme-Pierrepoint is seventeen)
  • p. 23, "Huntington" to "Huntingdon" (20) (Francis of Huntingdon)
  • p. 62, "clerygyman" to "clergyman" (had been a clergyman)
  • p. 68, "worldy" to "worldly" (Bishop's worldly estate)
  • p. 118, "Aven" to "Avon" (2) (Stratford upon Avon)
  • p. 164, "Beaument" to "Beaumont" (674) (John Beaumont never recalls)
  • p. 345, "Gentleman" to "Gentlemen" (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
  • p. 445, "320" to "302" ("Woman is a Weather-Cocke," 87, 302-305)
  • p. 444, "Kinsman" to "Kinsmen" (Two Noble Kinsmen, The)
  • p. 445, "Cycropædeia" to "Cyropædeia" (Xenophon's Cyropædeia)

Possible typographical errors retained in text; falling within quoted material:

  • p. 64, "lived in her highnes," (highness)
  • p. 81, "it was no ofspring" (offspring)
  • p. 108, "Drammatick and Scenical King" (Dramatick)
  • p. 122, "... excellent Maister Beamont" (Beaumont)
  • p. 194, "... Francis Beamont" (Beaumont)
  • p. 231, "Flesher and Beaumont" (Fletcher)
  • p. 231, "The Faithfull Shipheardesse" (Shepheardesse)
  • p. 375, "Abigal," (Abigail)
  • p. 430, "Cavendishes" (Cavendishs') (in Index)

Several instances of "Middle English Spellings" used are:

  • "Maiesties" (Middle English) and "Majesties," and
  • "Doe, se, yt, yn, y'll" and "do, see, it, in, I'll"

Play Title Variations, each of which appears several times:

  • "Aeschylus" and "Æschylus"
  • "Amadis de Gaule" and "Amadis de Gaul"
  • "Beggars' Bush" and "Beggars Bush"
  • "... Curious coxcombe" and "... Curious cox-combe"
  • "Duchess of Malfi" and "Duchess of Malfy"
  • "Julius Ceasar" and "Julius Cæsar"
  • "Maid's Tragedy", "Maids Tragedy", "Maides Tragedy"
  • "Maske of the Gentleman of Grayes Inne" and "Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne".
  • "Morall Representations" and "Moralle Representations"
  • "Parisitaster" and "Parasitaster"
  • "Essay of Dramatick Poesie" and "Essay on Dramatick Poesy"
  • "The Scornful Lady" and "The Scornful Ladie"
  • "The Shepheardesse" and "The Shepheardess"
  • "The Coxcomb" and "The Coxcombe"
  • "Weather-cocke" and "Weather-Cocke"
  • "Women Pleas'd" and "Women Pleased"

Other word variations:

  • "Zouch" and "Zouche" (Ashby-de-la-----)
  • "Bedchamber" and "Bed-chamber"
  • "birthright" and "birth-right"
  • "Cal, S. P.," "Cal. St. Pa., Dom.," "Calendar of State Papers (Domestic)" (see Footnotes)
  • "Condel" and "Condell" (Henry ----)
  • "countryside" and "country-side"
  • "D'Urfey" and D'Urfé (Marquis ----)
  • "Hoskyns" and "Hoskins" (Serjeant ----)
  • "milkmaid" and "milk-maid" (both occur on p. 27)
  • "northwest" and "north-west"
  • "Pierepoint" and "Pierrepoint"
  • "Sannazzaro" and "Sannazarro"
  • "Shepherdesse" and "Shepheardesse"
  • "Sempill" and "Semphill" (Sir James ----)
  • "southeast" and "south-east"
  • "White-hall" and "Whitehall"