X AN INTERSECTING CIRCLE OF JOVIAL SORT 145 XI BEAUMONT AND SIR PHILIP SIDNEY'S DAUGHTER; RELATIONS WITH OTHER PERSONS OF NOTE 150 XII BEAUMONT'S MARRIAGE AND DEATH; THE SURVIVING FAMILY 172 XIII THE PERSONALITY, AND THE CONTEMPORARY REPUTATION OF BEAUMONT 190 XIV TRADITION, AND TRADITIONAL CRITICISM 206 XV A FEW WORDS OF FLETCHER'S LATER YEARS 211 PART TWO THE COLLABORATION OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER CHAPTER PAGE XVI STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM; CRITICAL APPARATUS 225 XVII THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD 236 XVIII THE VERSIFICATION OF FLETCHER AND OF BEAUMONT 243 XIX FLETCHER'S DICTION 260 XX FLETCHER'S MENTAL HABIT 277 XXI BEAUMONT'S DICTION 281 XXII BEAUMONT'S MENTAL HABIT 291 XXIII THE AUTHORSHIP OF THREE DISPUTED PLAYS 300 XXIV "THE WOMAN-HATER," AND "THE KNIGHT" 307 XXV THE FIVE CENTRAL PLAYS 332 XXVI THE LAST PLAY 368 XXVII THE DRAMATIC ART, PRINCIPALLY OF BEAUMONT 378 XXVIII DID THE BEAUMONT "ROMANCE" INFLUENCE SHAKESPEARE? 386 XXIX CONCLUSION 396 APPENDIX Table A 419 " B 420 " C 421 " D 422 " E 423 INDEX 425 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of Francis Beaumont _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE The Ruins of Grace-Dieu Nunnery 22 Ruins of Grace-Dieu 26 A Priory, Ulveston, Extant in 1730 26 Thomas Sackville, First Earl of Dorset 66 The Temple 96 The Globe Theatre, with St. Paul's in the Background 104 Ben Jonson 120 Francis Bacon 146 George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and Family 160 John Selden 170