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John Fletcher

  

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John Fletcher : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William brought his Mattress out, and lay down on the floor. I read to him the life of Ben Jonson, and some short poems of his, which were too interesting for him, and would not let him go to sleep. I had begun with Fletcher, but he was too dull for me.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : [unknown]

'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : A wife for a month

'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a play of Flechers, being "A wife for a month" - wherein no great wit or language.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : The Custome of the Country

'So anon they went away and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country", which is a very poor one methinks.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : The mad lover

'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Cupid's Revenge

'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Faithfull Shepheardesse, The

'Shelley reads the first act of the faithful Shepherdess aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Faithfull Shepheardesse, The

'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Wife for a Month, A

'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger : The Elder Brother

'Sunday April 30th. [...] Read Elder Brother [quotes two lines from Act II scene 1]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret

'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of Beaumont & Fletcher.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Chances, The

'Read the Chances'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Night Walker or, the Little Thief

'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Love's Pilgrimage

'Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : The Faithful Shepherdess

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 February 1837: 'I have been reading & rejoicing in your Faithful Shepherdess. The general conception & plan are feeble & imperfect -- do you not admit it? but the work in detail -- how prodigal it is in exquisite poetry'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Double Marriage, The

'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giuliano - Reads the double marriage aloud'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

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