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(Francis Beaumont) (b ´m nt) (KEY) , 1584?–1616, English dramatist. Born of a distinguished family, he studied at Oxford and the Inner Temple. His literary reputation is linked with that of John Fletcher, with whom he began collaborating about 1606. Their plays are noted for plot symmetry, refined taste, and provocative sexual situations.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  b´mnt´´, -m ntfrom The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Philaster
Harvard Classics, Vol. XLVII, Part 3.
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- Bartlett’s Beaumont and Fletcher Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Beaumont, Francis, 6111 to 6121
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- Fletcher, John, 22489 to 22498
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER
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- “Beaumont and Fletcher”
Chapter by G. C. Macaulay with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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