The Elder Brother / The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10)

This volume gathers several dramatic works by Beaumont and Fletcher and presents each play in a modernized text alongside a substantial editorial apparatus. The editors explain their decisions about printing prose or verse, collate folio, quarto, and manuscript readings, and supply an appendix listing omissions and verbal variants. Documentary material describes the discovery and comparison of a key manuscript, corrects earlier reprints, and outlines plans for a companion commentary, glossary, and notes. The plays themselves are given in performance-ready form with dramatis personae and scene divisions, spanning comic and pastoral modes and illustrating differing textual traditions.