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

CONTENTS

PART ONE
BEAUMONT'S LIFE, HIS ACQUAINTANCES, AND HIS CAREER AS POET AND DRAMATIST
CHAPTER				PAGE
I	THE CASTOR AND POLLUX OF ELIZABETHAN DRAMA			[3]
II	BEAUMONT'S FAMILY; HIS EARLY YEARS: GRACE-DIEU, OXFORD			[10]
III	AT THE INNS OF COURT AND CHANCERY; THE POEMS ASSIGNED TO THESE EARLIER YEARS			[29]
IV	THE VAUX COUSINS AND THE GUNPOWDER PLOT			[46]
V	FLETCHER'S FAMILY, AND HIS YOUTH			[62]
VI	SOME EARLY PLAYS OF BEAUMONT AND OF FLETCHER			[72]
VII	THE "BANKE-SIDE" AND THE PERIOD OF THE PARTNERSHIP			[95]
VIII	RELATIONS WITH SHAKESPEARE, JONSON, AND OTHERS IN THE THEATRICAL WORLD			[114]
IX	THE "MASQUE OF THE INNER TEMPLE": THE PASTORALISTS, AND OTHER CONTEMPORARIES AT THE INNS OF COURT			[124]
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]

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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]
The Beaumont of the Nuneham Portrait	[192]
Michael Drayton	[202]
John Fletcher	[226]
John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury	[244]
Don Diego Sarmiento, Count Gondomar	[372]

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BEAUMONT, THE DRAMATIST
PART ONE

BEAUMONT'S LIFE, HIS ACQUAINTANCES, AND HIS CAREER AS POET AND DRAMATIST.

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