Fletcher, John 1579-1625

Overview

Works:	2,621 works in 10,155 publications in 6 languages and 122,288 library holdings
Genres:	Drama History Criticism, interpretation, etc Historical drama Comedy plays Spurious and doubtful works Political plays Tragicomedies Tragedies (Drama) Chronologies
Roles:	Author, Other, Librettist, Lyricist, Narrator, Bibliographic antecedent, Editor, Honoree, Author of introduction, Attributed name, Contributor, Creator, Collaborator
Classifications:	PR2817.A2, 822.3

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Most widely held works about John Fletcher

The politics of unease in the plays of John Fletcher by Gordon McMullan( )
Court and country politics in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher by Philip J Finkelpearl( )
The influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Restoration drama by John Harold Wilson( Book )
Studies in Beaumont, Fletcher, and Massinger by Baldwin Maxwell( Book )
Beaumont and Fletcher on the Restoration stage by Arthur Colby Sprague( Book )

Poets on Fortune's Hill; studies in Sidney, Shakespeare, Beaumont & Fletcher by John F Danby( Book )
The John Fletcher plays by Clifford Leech( Book )
The influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakspere by Ashley Horace Thorndike( Book )
Jacobean dramatic perspectives by Arthur C Kirsch( Book )
The pattern of tragicomedy in Beaumont and Fletcher by Eugene M Waith( Book )
Beaumont and Fletcher; a critical study by William W Appleton( Book )
John Fletcher by Charles L Squier( Book )
The plays of Beaumont and Fletcher : an attempt to determine their respective shares and the shares of others by E. H. C Oliphant( Book )
Fletcherian dramatic achievement : a study in the mature plays of John Fletcher (1579-1625) by Pavel Drábek( )
Beaumont, the dramatist; a portrait, with some account of his circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, and of his association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley( Book )
Beaumont and Fletcher by Ian Fletcher( Book )
John Fletcher's chastity plays; mirrors of modesty by Nancy Cotton( Book )
Shakespeare, Fletcher, and the two noble kinsmen( Book )
A history of English dramatic literature to the death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward( Book )
Fletcher, Beaumont & company; entertainers to the Jacobean gentry by Lawrence B Wallis( Book )

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Most widely held works by John Fletcher

The two noble kinsmen by John Fletcher( Book )

332 editions published between 1634 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 5,553 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tells the familiar story of a love triangle

Philaster or love lies a bleeding by Francis Beaumont( )

23 editions published between 1622 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,829 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The maid's tragedy by Francis Beaumont( Book )

88 editions published between 1622 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,710 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This edition of Beaumont and Fletcher's best tragedy includes a stage history of the play, as well as new information about sources and their relation to the play. Stage action is examined and stage directions improved

The knight of the burning pestle by Francis Beaumont( Book )

118 editions published between 1613 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,695 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts by Francis Beaumont, first performed at Blackfriars Theatre in 1607 and published in a quarto in 1613. It is the earliest whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on chivalric romances in general, similar to Don Quixote, and a parody of Thomas Heywood's The Four Prentices of London and Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday

Philaster : or, Love lies a-bleeding by Francis Beaumont( Book )

95 editions published between 1634 and 2013 in English and Italian and held by 1,635 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Philaster is a tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher which has much in common with Shakespeare's late plays such as The Winter's Tale. Set in a fictionalised Sicily, it has the complex plot of love, disguise and the threat of death much loved by early modern theatre-goers. This edition provides an authoritative, modernised text by a leading scholar with detailed on-page commentary notes giving readers a deeper understanding of the play. The comprehensive, illustrated introduction discusses Philaster from a performance perspective as well as its relation to Shakespearean drama, and places it in its historical and critical contexts."--Publisher description

A king and no king by Francis Beaumont( Book )

84 editions published between 1619 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,519 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A popular and influential play from its first performance in 1611 until the early eighteenth century, A King and No King helped establish Beaumont and Fletcher as leading playwrights of the day, and tragicomedy as the seventeenth century's favoured dramatic genre." "Accompanying this newly edited text, an introduction explores the play's sources, both literary and dramatic, and offers a thorough reconsideration of it social and political context. Lee Bliss finds the entertaining, wish-fulfilment tragicomic form not incompatible with a serious critical engagement with contemporary issues of royal absolutism, good governance, and the political role of the aristocracy. In addition, this edition provides the fullest available account of A King and No King's stage history, tracing the shifts in cultural mores that eroded its popularity and ultimately consigned it to the study rather than the stage."--Jacket

The life of King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare( Book )

53 editions published between 1999 and 2017 in English and held by 1,258 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This is the first fully annotated and comprehensive modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII - known in its early performances as All is True - for over ten years. It makes full use of current scholarship on the dating, authorship, printing, and sources of the play, as well as critical interpretations, and includes an up-to-date survey of the play in performance. It is the first edition to make frequent use of Cavendish's life of Cardinal Wolsey, which seems likely to have influenced certain aspects of the play, as well as the other recognized sources in Holinshed, Hall, and Foxe." "On authorship, the editor concludes that Shakespeare and his younger colleague John Fletcher worked on the script together but that Shakespeare was probably the guiding spirit, as well as the principal author of several major scenes." "A fully detailed commentary and a selective collation of major variant readings appear immediately beneath the text. Special attention has been given to the frequent allusion to scripture and proverb lore. An index to all words glossed and authorities cited appears at the end of the volume."--Jacket

Samuel Beckett now; critical approaches to his novels, poetry, and plays by Melvin J Friedman( Book )

2 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 1,190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Philaster by Francis Beaumont( Book )

41 editions published between 1620 and 1975 in English and held by 1,048 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

At head of title: Beaumont and Fletcher

Beggars bush by John Fletcher( Book )

47 editions published between 1661 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 932 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The dramatic works in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon by Francis Beaumont( Book )

4 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 891 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Each volume contains five or six plays with a textual introduction and critical apparatus--from volume 1

Beggars bush by John Fletcher( )

1 edition published in 1967 in English and held by 881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elizabethan drama by William Shakespeare( Book )

4 editions published between 1910 and 1919 in English and held by 760 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Although a two-volume work on Elizabethan-era drama, only the first volume is included in this Anthology as it directly relates to Shakespeare and Marlowe. Marlowe's "Edward the Second" is the first piece, followed by four of Shakespeare's greatest works to provide a basis for comparison

Six Elizabethan plays (1585-1635) by R. C Bald( Book )

3 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 757 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cardenio, or, The second maiden's tragedy by William Shakespeare( Book )

11 editions published in 1994 in English and German and held by 756 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Long sought by scholars as the Holy Grail of world literature, and masquerading under the censor's makeshift title, "The second maiden's tragedy," this lost play was discovered by Charles Hamilton, a forensic document examiner and literary historian

Elizabethan and Stuart plays by Charles Read Baskervill( Book )

2 editions published between 1934 and 1962 in English and held by 754 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rule a wife and have a wife. A comedy by Francis Beaumont( )

104 editions published between 1640 and 1977 in English and Undetermined and held by 713 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The maides tragedy. : As it hath beene diuers times acted at the Blacke-friers by the Kings Maiesties Seruants by Francis Beaumont( )

55 editions published between 1619 and 1641 in English and held by 686 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The pilgrim : a comedy as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane by John Fletcher( )

30 editions published between 1700 and 1983 in English and held by 633 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Select plays by Francis Beaumont( Book )

23 editions published between 1900 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 624 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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