Author:Francis Beaumont

Francis Beaumont
(1584–1616)

Francis Beaumont

Works

Solo Plays

• The Knight of the Burning Pestle, comedy (performed 1607; printed 1613)
• The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, masque (performed Feb. 20, 1613; printed 1613?)

Collaborations

With Fletcher:

• The Woman Hater, comedy (1606; 1607)
• Cupid's Revenge, tragedy (c. 1607–12; 1615)
• Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding, tragicomedy (c. 1609; 1620) 1634 ed.: IA
• The Maid's Tragedy, tragedy (c. 1609; 1619)
• A King and No King, tragicomedy (1611; 1619)
• The Captain, comedy (c. 1609–12; 1647)
• The Scornful Lady, comedy (c. 1613; 1616)
• Love's Pilgrimage, tragicomedy (c. 1615–16; 1647)
• The Noble Gentleman, comedy (c. 1613?; licensed Feb. 3, 1626; 1647)
• Fifty Comedies and Tragedies (1679) (external scan)
• The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher (1750) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4, IA 5, IA 6, IA 7, IA 8, IA 9, IA 10

With Fletcher and Massinger:

• Thierry and Theodoret, tragedy (c. 1607?; 1621)
• The Coxcomb, comedy (c. 1608–10; 1647)
• Beggars' Bush, comedy (c. 1612–13? revised 1622?; 1647)
• Love's Cure, comedy (c. 1612–13?; revised 1625?; 1647)

Other Works

• Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
• Commendatory Verses to Jonson's Volpone

Works about Beaumont

• "John Fletcher," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 57−61), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698): article also covers Beaumont
• "Beaumont and Fletcher," by Algernon Charles Swinburne in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 3) (1878)
• "Beaumont and Fletcher," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Beaumont and Fletcher" (1882), a sonnet by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Fletcher, John (1579-1625)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Beaumont, Francis," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Fletcher, John," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Beaumont, Francis," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Beaumont and Fletcher," by Algernon Charles Swinburne and Margaret Bryant in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Beaumont, Francis," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)