Francis Beaumont

Francis Beaumont

Charles Mills Gayley, professor of English and the Classics (1858-1932)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Dedication

- Preface

- Part One. Beaumont's Life

- Chapter I. The Castor And Pollux Of Elizabethan Drama

- Chapter Ii. Beaumont's Family; His Early Years: Grace-dieu, Oxford

- Chapter Iii. At The Inns Of Court And Chancery; The Poems Assigned To These Earlier Years

- Chapter Iv. The Vaux Cousins And The Gunpowder Plot

- Chapter V. Fletcher's Family, And His Youth

- Chapter Vi. Some Early Plays Of Beaumont And Of Fletcher

- Chapter Vii. The Banke-side And The Period Of The Partnership

- Chapter Viii. Relations With Shakespeare, Jonson, And Others In The Theatrical World

- Chapter Ix. The Masque Of The Inner Temple

- Chapter X. An Intersecting Circle Of Jovial Sort

- Chapter Xi. Beaumont And Sir Philip Sidney's Daughter

- Chapter Xii, Beaumont's Marriage And Death - The Surviving Family

- Chapter Xiii. The Personality, And The Contemporary Reputation Of Beaumont

- Chapter Xiv. Tradition, And Traditional Criticism

- Chapter Xv. A Few Words Of Fletcher's Later Years

- Part Two. The Collaboration Of Beaumont And Fletcher

- Chapter Xvi, Statement Of The Problem; Critical Apparatus

- Chapter Xvii. The Delimitation Of The Field

- Chapter Xviii, The Versification Of Fletcher And Of Beaumont

- Chapter Xix. Fletcher's Diction

- Chapter Xx. Fletcher's Mental Habit

- Chapter Xxi. Beaumont's Diction

- Chapter Xxii. Beaumont's Mental Habit

- Chapter Xxiii. The Authorship Of Three Disputed Plays

- Chapter Xxiv. The Woman-hater And The Knight

- Chapter Xxv. The Five Central Plays

- Chapter Xxvi. The Last Play

- Chapter Xxvii. The Dramatic Art, Principally Of Beaumont

- Chapter Xxviii. Did The Beaumont 'romance' Influence Shakespeare

- Chapter Xxix. Conclusion