The Beaumont and Fletcher Page

( ?1585 - 1616 ) ( 1579 - 1625 )

Major Works
The following representative list is of works co-written by Beaumont and Fletcher unless otherwise indicated.
Salamis and Hermaphroditvs (1602). On Line. Beaumont.
The Faithful Shepherdess ( ?1610 ). Fletcher.
The Knight of the Burning Pestle ( 1613 ). Beaumont.
A KIng and No King ( 1619 ).
The Maides Tragedy ( 1619 ).
Philaster; or, Love Lies A-Bleeding ( 1620 ).
Bonduca ( 1647 ).
The Wild Goose Chase ( 1652 ). Fletcher.

Besides the plays he wrote alone, Beaumont wrote about fifteen plays in collaboration with Fletcher, and Fletcher, himself prolific, wrote plays individually and in collaboration with one or more other playwrights. For example, The Two Noble Kinsmen is considered a fairly equal collaboration between Fletcher and Shakespeare, and The Bloody Brother is considered a collaboration of Fletcher and at least three others. The History of Henry VIII is said to be all Shakespeare's, partly Fletcher's, or...The controversy which has surrounded the authorship of these and other plays is not mere academic clowning: establishing texts and authorships is an extremely painstaking process and requires highly specialized knowledge of authors' writing styles, contemporary history including daily events, the publishing business of the time, and theatrical history in all its branches, just to name a few areas.
On-line Works by Beaumont at Luminarium.
On-line Works by Fletcher at Luminarium.

About Beaumont and Fletcher
William Worthen Appleton, Beaumont and Fletcher: A Critical Study., 1956
Francis Beaumont at Luminarium.
John Fletcher at Luminarium.
John Fletcher from Internet Public Library.

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