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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 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