Delphi Complete Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (Illustrated‪)‬

Regarded by some as second only to Shakespeare, the Jacobean dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher collaborated to produce some of the finest plays of the seventeenth century. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Beaumont and Fletcher’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Beaumont and Fletcher’s lives and works
* Concise introductions to the plays
* ALL 58 plays, with individual contents tables
* Features all the plays written with other collaborators, many appearing for the first time digital publishing
* Images of how the plays were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the Jacobean texts
* Excellent formatting of the plays
* Also includes the poetry of Beaumont and Fletcher
* Easily locate the poems or scenes you want to read
* Includes rare and disputed plays
* Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Beaumont and Fletcher’s contribution to literature
* Features two biographies – explore Beaumont and Fletcher’s Jacobean world
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with improved texts

CONTENTS:

Beaumont’s Solo Plays
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn

Fletcher’s Solo Plays
The Faithful Shepherdess
Valentinian
Monsieur Thomas
The Woman’s Prize; or the Tamer Tamed
Bonduca
The Chances
Wit Without Money
The Mad Lover
The Loyal Subject
The Humorous Lieutenant
Women Pleased
The Island Princess,
The Wild Goose Chase
The Pilgrim
A Wife for a Month
Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

Beaumont and Fletcher’s Plays
The Woman Hater
Cupid’s Revenge
Philaster; or Love Lies A-Bleeding
The Maid’s Tragedy
A King and No King
The Captain
The Scornful Lady
Love’s Pilgrimage
The Noble Gentleman

Beaumont and Fletcher’s Plays Revised by Massinger
Thierry and Theodoret
The Coxcomb
Beggars’ Bush
Love’s Cure

Fletcher and Massinger’s Plays
Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
The Little French Lawyer
A Very Woman; Or, the Prince of Tarent
The Custom of the Country
The Double Marriage
The False One
The Prophetess
The Sea Voyage
The Spanish Curate
The Lovers’ Progress or the Wandering Lovers
The Elder Brother

Fletcher, Massinger and Field’s Plays
The Honest Man’s Fortune
The Queen of Corinth
The Knight of Malta

Fletcher and Shakespeare’s Plays
Henry VIII
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Cardenio (Lost)

Fletcher, Middleton and Rowley’s Collaboration
Wit at Several Weapons

Fletcher and Rowley’s Play
The Maid in the Mill

Fletcher and Field’s Play
Four Plays; or Moral Representations, in One, Morality

Fletcher, Massinger, Jonson and Chapman’s Play
Rollo Duke of Normandy; or the Bloody Brother

Fletcher and Shirley’s Play
The Night Walker; or the Little Thief

Contested Fletcher Plays
The Nice Valour; or the Passionate Madman
The Laws of Candy
The Fair Maid of the Inn
The Faithful Friends
The Coronation

The Poetry
Beaumont’s Poetry
Fletcher’s Poetry
First Folio Commendatory Verses
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order

The Criticism
Notes on Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Three Masterpieces by Walter W. Greg
The Later Elizabethans by Ashley H. Thorndike

The Biographies
Francis Beaumont: Dramatist by Charles Mills Gayley
Beaumont and Fletcher by Algernon Charles Swinburne and Margaret Bryant