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Article: Unraveling Beaumont from Fletcher with music, misogyny, and masque.(Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)(Critical Essay)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Great pair of authors, whom one equal star Begot so like in genius,
that you are In fame, as well as writings, both so knit That no man
knows where to divide your wit
--Jasper Mayne, from the preface to the 1647 Beaumont and Fletcher
folio (1)
A conspicuous characteristic of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's work is the apparent seamlessness of the collaboration. If, as alleged, the two writers "lived together on the Banke side, not far from the Play-house, both batchelors; lay together ... had one wench in the house between them, which they did so admire; the same cloathes and cloake ... betweene them," (2) they had every opportunity to work ...