Author:Francis Beaumont

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Francis Beaumont (1584–1616)

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English playwright

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 John 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)
• 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)

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

• “Beaumont and Fletcher,” in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• “Beaumont, Francis,” 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)
• “Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616),” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.