Author : Francis Beaumont
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ISBN 13 : 9781330480823
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Book Synopsis Beaumont Fletcher (Classic Reprint) by : Francis Beaumont
Download or read book Beaumont Fletcher (Classic Reprint) written by Francis Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beaumont Fletcher This is one of the plays which were undoubtedly the joint production of Beaumont and Fletcher. In what year it was first brought on the stage cannot now be ascertained with accuracy; but Mr Malone has given us a clue which seems to ascertain the date with great probability. He observes that it was probably subsequent to Philaster, which is conjectured to have been written about 1608 or 1609, and that it was certainly written before 1611, as the Second Maid's Tragedy, attributed to Chapman, and extant among the Lansdown manuscripts, was licensed on the 31st of October in that year. Mr Malone, for that reason, proposes to fix the date of the present tragedy in 1610. It was first printed in the year 1619, and so great was the public demand for it, that the second edition appeared in 1622; the third in 1630; the fourth in 1638; the fifth in 1641; the sixth in 1650; and another, which is also called the sixth, in 1661. All these editions, excepting the two last, have a cut on the title-page representing Amintor killing Aspatia. The popularity of the play on the stage appears to have been fully as great, and continued longer, than was the case with the greater part of our authors' performances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
