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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Baudouin, _Le Curieux Impertinent_, 332
Beau Manor, 10;
"Beaumanoir," 12
Beaumont and Fletcher, portraits of, 190-192, 217-219;
collaboration of (in general), 3-9, 223-416;
the problem, 225-233;
critical apparatus, 233-235;
folios, 225-229, 236-239;
quartos, 239-241, and under individual plays;
editions, 217, 234, 244, 271, 318, 324, 338, 349, 359, 361, 368,
371, 377;
delimitation of the field, 236-242;
versification, 243-260;
diction of Fletcher, 260-277, of Beaumont, 281-290;
mental habit of Fletcher, 277-280, of Beaumont, 281-290;
authorship of _Foure Playes_, _Love's Cure_, _The Captaine_, 300-306;
of the _Woman-Hater_, 73, 307;
of _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, 80, 310;
of _The Coxcombe_, 337;
of _Philaster_, 345;
of _The Maides Tragedy_, 349;
of _Cupid's Revenge_, 359;
of _A King and No King_, 361;
of the _Scornful Ladie_, 374;
influence upon Shakespeare (?) 386, upon the drama, 396;
Beaumont and Fletcher compared, 399-411
Beaumont, Anthony, 160
Beaumont, Barons and Viscounts de, 10-12
Beaumont's diction, 281ff.
Beaumont, Elizabeth, Lady Vaux, 15, 46
Beaumont, Elizabeth, sister of the dramatist, Mrs. Seyliard, 43, 45,
46, 70, 159, 176, 187
Beaumont, Elizabeth, daughter of the dramatist, 180, 187
Beaumont, Frances, posthumous daughter of the dramatist, 187ff.
Beaumont, Francis, the dramatist:
his family, early years in Grace-Dieu, Oxford, 10ff.;
at the Inns of Court, earliest poems, etc., 29ff.;
the Vaux cousins and the Gunpowder Plot, 46ff.;
some early plays of, 72ff.;
period of partnership with Fletcher, 95ff.;
relations with Shakespeare, Jonson, and others in the theatrical
world, 114ff., 124ff., 145ff.;
_The Masque of the Inner Temple_, 124-144;
the Pastoralists, and other contemporaries at the Inns of Court,
131-144;
an intersecting circle of jovial sort, 145-149;
the Countess of Rutland (Elizabeth Sidney), 150ff.;
his marriage, death, surviving family, 172ff.;
personality and contemporary reputation, portraits, 190ff.;
versification, 246ff., 281ff.;
stock words, phrases, and figures, 282ff.;
lines of Inevitable Poetry, 287;
his mental habit, 291ff.;
his dramatic art, adaptation, etc., 378ff.;
Did the Beaumont "romance" influence Shakespeare? 386ff.;
not a leader in decadence, 396-401;
Beaumont compared with Fletcher, 401-411;
and with other dramatists, 411-415
Beaumont, Francis, his _Poems_, 39, 40, 150ff., 172-174, 183, 230,
251, 292, 295, 298, 330
Beaumont, Francis, the Justice, father of the dramatist, 15-19, 21,
24, 29
Beaumont, Sir Henry, brother of the dramatist, 16, 18, 29, 44, 45, 99
Beaumont, Sir Henry, of Coleorton, 19, 160