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Francis Beaumont

  

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Francis Beaumont : [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

  

Francis Beaumont : The Dramatic Works

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Francis Beaumont : Fifty Comedies and Tragedies

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Francis Beaumont : Salmasis and Hermaphroditus

'Read Beaumonts Hermophroditus [sic]'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid

'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : Wild-goose Chase, The

'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : [Plays, with Fletcher]

'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : [Plays]

'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : [Plays, with Fletcher]

'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : The Night Walker, [or, the little Thiefe]

'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : The Maides Tragedy

'S. translates the Symposium and reads the Maid's Tragedy of Beaumont'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : Philaster; or Love lyes a-bleeding

'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philaster'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : A King and No King

'S. translates the Symposium - & reads a king and no king'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : Laws of Candy, The

'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'

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

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman Hater

'Saturday March 18th. [...] Read the Woman Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. Excellent Spy scene which would apply to the present ministers.' [...] 'Sunday March 19th. [...] Finish Woman-Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. '

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

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd

'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Finish the fall of Sejanus by Ben Jonson begin the Woman's prize or the Tamer tam'd by Beaumont & Fletcher.'

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

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd

'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'

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

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : Wit at Several Weapons

'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'

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

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : Wit Without Money

'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'

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

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Noble Gentleman

'Thursday April 27th. [...] Read Noble Gentleman of Beaumont & Fletcher.'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : Wife for a Month, The

'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : Philaster, or Love Lies Bleeding

'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : [Plays]

'S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : [Plays]

'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : [Plays]

'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : [unknown]

'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : Tragedy of Bonduca

'S reads Fletcher's Tragedy of Bonduca aloud to me in the evening'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : Tragedy of Bonduca

'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : Tragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother Theodoret

'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : Tragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother Theodoret

'S finishes the Trajedy to me'

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

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : plays (extracts)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836: 'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, with respect to the old dramatists! -- for indeed I have had little opportunity of walking with them in their purple & fine linen. Only [italics]extracts[end italics] from Bea[u]mont & Fletcher -- & Ford, -- have past before my eyes!'

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

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end italics] [...] and how it has been declared that no theatre can exist at the present day without a saloon -- & how, if it could, the effect wd be to force vicious persons & their indecencies into full view in the boxes --!! Now this appears to me enough to constitute a repulsive objection! & I who have read hard at the old dramatists since I last spoke to you about them, -- Beaumont & Fletcher Massinger Ben Jonson all Dodsley's collection, -- can yet see that objection in all its repulsiveness! .. & read on!'

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

  

Francis Beaumont : Bonduca

'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! yet I do not suppose them a Plagiarisme; old Bentley would have scorned such Tricks, besides what passed once between myself and Mr Johnson should cure me of Suspicion in these Cases. We had then some thoughts of giving a Translation of Boethius, and I used now & then to shew him the Verses I had made towards the Work: in the Ode with the Story of Orpheus in it - beginning "felix qui potuit &c" he altered some of my Verses to these which he [italics] thought [end italics] his own. "Fondly viewed his following Bride Viewing lost, and losing died." Two Years after this, I resolved to go through all the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, and in one of them - Bonduca, I found two Lines so like these of Johnson's that one would have sworn he had imitated them: that very Afternoon he came, & says I, did you ever delight much in Reading Beaumont & Fletcher's Plays - I never read any of them at all replied he, but I intend some Time to go over them, here in your fine Edition'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

  

Francis Beaumont : [Plays]

'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! yet I do not suppose them a Plagiarisme; old Bentley would have scorned such Tricks, besides what passed once between myself and Mr Johnson should cure me of Suspicion in these Cases. We had then some thoughts of giving a Translation of Boethius, and I used now & then to shew him the Verses I had made towards the Work: in the Ode with the Story of Orpheus in it - beginning "felix qui potuit &c" he altered some of my Verses to these which he [italics] thought [end italics] his own. "Fondly viewed his following Bride Viewing lost, and losing died." Two Years after this, I resolved to go through all the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, and in one of them - Bonduca, I found two Lines so like these of Johnson's that one would have sworn he had imitated them: that very Afternoon he came, & says I, did you ever delight much in Reading Beaumont & Fletcher's Plays - I never read any of them at all replied he, but I intend some Time to go over them, here in your fine Edition'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

  

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