Francis Beaumont: Dramatist: A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean,; And of His Association with John Fletcher — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Francis Beaumont: Dramatist: A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean,; And of His Association with John Fletcher
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[Illustration: By permission of the Right Hon. Lord Sackville, G. C. M. G.
PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS BEAUMONT
From the original painting at Knole Park]
FRANCIS BEAUMONT: DRAMATIST
A Portrait
With Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, and of
His Association with John Fletcher
by
CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, LITT.D., LL.D.
_Professor of the English Language and Literature
in the University of California_
[Illustration: DESORMAIS]
London
Duckworth & Co.
3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
1914
Copyright, 1914, by
The Century Co.
Published, February, 1914
TO MY WIFE
PREFACE
In this period of resurgent dramatic creativity when once more the
literature of the stage enthralls the public and commands the publisher,
it is but natural that playwright, play-lover, and scholar alike should
turn with renewed and enlightened interest to the models afforded by our
Elizabethan masters of the age of gold, to the circumstances of their
production and the lives of their imperishable authors. Very close to
Shakespeare stood Beaumont and Fletcher; but, though during the past
three centuries books about Shakespeare have been as legion and studies
of the "twin literary heroes" have run into the hundreds, to Fletcher as
an individual but one book has been devoted, and to Beaumont but one.