[147] F. G. Fleay, in _New Shakespeare Society Transactions_, 1874; _Shakespeare Manual_, 1876; _Englische Studien_, IX (1866); _Chronicle of the English Drama_, 1891. R. Boyle, in _Engl. Stud._, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XVII, XVIII, XXVI, XXXI (1881-1902), and in _N. Shaksp. Soc. Trans._, 1886. G. C. Macaulay, _Francis Beaumont_, 1883; and in _Cambridge History of English Literature_, VI (1910). A. H. Bullen, article _John Fletcher_ in _Dictionary of National Biography_, XIX (1889). E. H. Oliphant, in _Engl. Stud._, XIV, XV, XVI (1890-92). A. H. Thorndike, _The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakespeare_, 1901; Beaumont and Fletcher's _Maid's Tragedy_, etc. (Belles Lettres Series), 1910. R. M. Alden, Beaumont's _Knight of the Burning Pestle_, etc. (Belles Lettres Series), 1910. The introductions in the _Variorum Edition_, 1904, 1905. For a general treatment of the subject see, also, A. W. Ward's _History of English Dramatic Literature_, II, 155-248 (1875), II, 642-764 (1809), and F. E. Schelling's _Elizabethan Drama_, II, 184-204, and for bibliography, 526. For general bibliography, Thorndike and Alden in Belles Lettres Series, as above; and _Camb. Hist. Eng. Lit._, VI, 488-496. CHAPTER XVII THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_. Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.