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Article: The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon, vol. 9.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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We now have the penultimate volume in the Cambridge series of the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Continuing the work of volume eight, this one includes five more plays attributed to John Fletcher and Philip Massinger - The Sea Voyage, The Double Marriage, The Prophetess, The Little French Lawyer, The Elder Brother - and a sixth, The Maid in the Mill, assigned to Fletcher and William Rowley. These are dated c. 1619-24, or within a year of Fletcher's death in 1625.
While it is customary to say that Fletcher produced his best work by collaborating with other playwrights, the plays in this volume do not bear out the axiom. As the late Fredson Bowers observes in his ...