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Article: Francis Beaumont (1584/5
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World;      700+ words ...FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1584/5 – 1616) and JOHN FLETCHER (1579 – 1625) FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1584/5 – 1616) and ... Dieu, Leicestershire, the son of Francis Beaumont, a judge, and the brother of the ...

Article: Francis Beaumont
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      694 words ...Francis Beaumont The English playwright Francis Beaumont (c. 1584-1616) was one of the major comic dramatists ... his work was done in collaboration with John Fletcher. Francis Beaumont was born to an old and distinguished Leicestershire family ...

Article: Unraveling Beaumont from Fletcher with music, misogyny, and ...
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... 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 ...

Article: Cross-dressing, gender, and absolutism in the Beaumont and ...
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The most anxious and confrontational political statement in the 1647 folio of the plays of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher is a blank space. In one of many prefatory poems by many authors, Thomas Peyton expresses his fear that his ...

Francis Beaumont [a sheet with three portraits].
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Article: Unraveling Beaumont from Fletcher with music, misogyny, and ...
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  March 22, 2004 ;     510 words ...Contrary to critical beliefs that Beaumont and Fletcher's collaboration was seamless, and that Fletcher contributed most of the scenes involving music and masque, by closely reading both original music for the plays and the texts themselves, overlaid with Cyrus Hoy's linguistic attribution studies,

Article: Cross-dressing, gender, and absolutism in the Beaumont and ...
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  March 22, 2004 ;     511 words ...Cross-dressing in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon marks anxieties or conflicted ideas about royal absolutism. Love's Cure, The Loyal Subject, Philaster, and The Maid's Tragedy display anxiety about the intersection of gender and authority. Tragicomic dramaturgy lends itself to the social function