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era; it proved popular, and was reprinted in a single-play edition in 1718. The play is one of the relatively few
Beaumont/Fletcher works given a performance in later centuries; it was acted by the
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Scholars date the play to c. 1608–10, based on contemporary allusions and availability of sources. (It has been argued that one of the play's sources was the "Curious
Impertinent" episode in
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116:. The former company combined with the latter for a time in 1613. The children's troupe later passed out of existence, leaving some of its plays, including
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has also been considered. If the revision was done for the 1636 revival, as some believe, Rowley would be eliminated, since he died a decade earlier.
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The Later
Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama,
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The Plays of
Beaumont and Fletcher: An Attempt to Determine Their Respective Shares and the Shares of Others. ,
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original, likely done for one of the King's Men's revivals. The favorite candidate for the reviser is
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Fletcher — Act I, scenes 1-3 and 5; Act II, 1 and 3; Act III, 1 and 2; Act IV, 2, 4-6, and 8;
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Critics have long recognized that the existing text is a revised version of the
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Beaumont — Act I, scene 4; Act II, 4; Act IV, 1, 3, and 7; Act V;
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Beaumont and
Fletcher — Act I, scene 6; Act II, 2; Act III, 3.
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The play's text in the second
Beaumont and Fletcher folio of
223:, 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 3, p. 223.
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provides a cast list for one production, a list that cites
108:, Giles Gary, Emanuel Read, Richard Allen, Hugh Atawell,
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Lincoln, NE, University of
Nebraska Press, 1978; p. 58.
978:† = Not published in the Beaumont and Fletcher folios
67:, that translation being the playwrights' source.
180:Along with many other plays in Fletcher's canon,
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123:The play then passed into the possession of the
249:New Haven, Yale University Press, 1927; p. 269.
196:on 10 February 1898 – a production reviewed by
168:, a major participant in Fletcher's canon; but
269:Dramatic Opinions and Essays, with an Apology,
422:The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn
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232:Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds.,
63:which was published in French translation in
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85:was performed at Court early in November
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271:New York, Brentano, 1907; pp. 418–28.
834:with Massinger, Chapman & Jonson
40:. It was initially published in the
1011:Plays by John Fletcher (playwright)
127:, who acted it at Court on 5 March
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844:with Massinger, Ford & Webster
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42:first Beaumont and Fletcher folio
415:The Knight of the Burning Pestle
1016:Plays by Beaumont and Fletcher
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91:Children of the Queen's Revels
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956:(Shakespeare & Fletcher?)
731:with Beaumont & Massinger
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925:Beaumont and Fletcher folios
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915:English Renaissance theatre
621:Rule a Wife and Have a Wife
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755:with Massinger & Field
1006:Plays by Francis Beaumont
996:English Renaissance plays
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670:The Custom of the Country
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258:Chambers, Vol. 3, p. 224.
190:Elizabethan Stage Society
878:(Middleton & Rowley)
849:The Fair Maid of the Inn
760:The Honest Man's Fortune
649:The Little French Lawyer
523:The Faithful Shepherdess
953:The History of Cardenio
839:Rollo, Duke of Normandy
586:The Humorous Lieutenant
184:was revived during the
875:Wit at Several Weapons
71:refers to the play in
802:The Two Noble Kinsmen
736:Thierry and Theodoret
310:Beaumont and Fletcher
267:George Bernard Shaw,
221:The Elizabethan Stage
162:Beaumont and Fletcher
131:, and on 17 November
829:The Maid in the Mill
767:The Queen of Corinth
677:The Lovers' Progress
607:The Wild Goose Chase
245:E. H. C. Oliphant,
114:Lady Elizabeth's Men
52:Date and performance
965:(possibly based on
774:The Knight of Malta
663:The Double Marriage
593:The Island Princess
505:The Noble Gentleman
350:William Shakespeare
198:George Bernard Shaw
192:in the Hall of the
684:The Spanish Curate
614:A Wife for a Month
484:A King and No King
477:The Maid's Tragedy
28:era stage play, a
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705:The Elder Brother
572:The Loyal Subject
530:The Woman's Prize
498:The Scornful Lady
491:Love's Pilgrimage
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962:Double Falsehood
930:Humphrey Moseley
812:The Night Walker
789:with Shakespeare
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360:Thomas Middleton
337:Philip Massinger
323:Francis Beaumont
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1001:1600s plays
906:Performance
870:(Middleton)
824:with Rowley
750:Love's Cure
600:The Pilgrim
565:The Chances
537:Valentinian
470:The Captain
456:The Coxcomb
186:Restoration
182:The Coxcomb
83:The Coxcomb
59:Don Quixote
32:written by
21:The Coxcomb
990:Categories
920:King's Men
795:Henry VIII
779:with Field
725:and others
375:Ben Jonson
204:References
176:After 1642
139:Authorship
125:King's Men
69:Ben Jonson
894:(Shirley)
642:Barnavelt
633:Massinger
463:Philaster
370:John Ford
144:Cyrus Hoy
967:Cardenio
723:Fletcher
515:Fletcher
432:Beaumont
407:Beaumont
26:Jacobean
944:Related
544:Bonduca
312:" Canon
89:by the
886:(Ford)
859:Others
30:comedy
396:(some
394:Plays
308:The "
133:1636
129:1622
98:1679
87:1612
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