The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon

These volumes contain the text and apparatus for the plays conventionally assigned to the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, although in fact Fletcher collaborated with dramatists other than Beaumont in numerous plays of the canon and some of the preserved text also represent revision at a later date by various hands.

List of contents

Foreword; The Honest Man's Fortune; Rollo, Duke of Normandy; The Spanish Curate; The Lovers' Progress; The Fair Maid of the Inn; The Laws of Candy; Index.

About the author

Francis Beaumont (1584 - 6 March 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.

Summary

This is the tenth and final volume in a ten-volume series of the critical old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical principles. This volume contains the texts of six plays written by Fletcher and his collaborators, Nathan Field, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Ford and John Webster.

Product details

• Authors: Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher
• Assisted by: Fredson Bowers (Editor), C. Hoy (Editor), Robert K. Turner (Editor), Robert Kean Turner (Editor), George Walton (Duke University Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.1996
• EAN: 9780521361897
• ISBN: 978-0-521-36189-7
• No. of pages: 760
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 48 mm
• Weight: 1186 g
• Series: Dwbf; Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon; Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet