Francis Beaumont (1584–1616)
Autor de The Knight of the Burning Pestle
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(eng) The cataloguing in many places (even in reputable libraries) of works by the Jacobean playwrights Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and/or John Fletcher (1579-1625) and/or their various collaborators tends to be confusing. Works by Fletcher alone can be found catalogued under Beaumont or under Beaumont & Fletcher; works by Beaumont alone can be found catalogued under Fletcher or under Beaumont & Fletcher; collaborations by Beaumont & Fletcher can be found catalogued under Fletcher alone or under Beaumont alone; collaborations by Fletcher and Massinger can be found catalogued under Fletcher alone or under Beaumont & Fletcher; –and some works are catalogued correctly! Collected and selected editions usually include a mix. (These confusions occurred even in the 17th century.) Here’s a breakdown: it’s a lot, but all of these are present in single play volumes or in Beaumont & Fletcher collections listed on LT.
Works by Beaumont alone: The Knight of the Burning Pestle; Salmacis & Hermaphroditus; Masque of the Inner Temple.
Works by Fletcher alone: The Faithful Shepherdess; Bonduca; Valentinian; The Woman’s Prize, or, The Tamer Tamed; Monsieur Thomas; The Island Princess; The Loyal Subject; The Mad Lover; The Pilgrim; A Wife for a Month; Rule a Wife & Have a Wife; The Chances; The Wild-Goose Chase; Women Pleased; Wit without Money; The Humourous Lieutenant, or, Demetrius & Enanthe.
Works by Beaumont & Fletcher together: The Maid’s Tragedy; Philaster, or, Love Lies A-Bleeding; A King & No King; Cupid’s Revenge; The Scornful Lady; The Coxcomb; The Woman Hater; The Captain; Love’s Pilgrimage; The Noble Gentleman
Works by Beaumont & Fletcher and Philip Massinger: Thierry & Theodoret; Beggars Bush; Love’s Cure.
Works by Fletcher and Massinger: Barnavelt; The Custom of the Country; The Double Marriage; The Elder Brother; The False One; The Little French Lawyer; The Lovers’ Progress; The Prophetess; The Sea Voyage; The Spanish Curate; A Very Woman.
Works by Fletcher and various collaborators: The Fair Maid of the Inn (w/ Massinger, John Webster & John Ford); The Two Noble Kinsmen (w/ Shakespeare); Four Plays in One (w/ Nathan Field); The Queen of Corinth (w/ Massinger & Field); The Knight of Malta (w/ Massinger & Field); The Honest Man’s Fortune (w/ Massinger & Field & Cyril Tourneur); The Maid in the Mill (w/ William Rowley); The Night Walker (revised by James Shirley); Rollo Duke of Normandy, or, The Bloody Brother (w/ Massinger & ?Jonson, ?Chapman, ?Field);
Works Printed with the Beaumont & Fletcher canon but which are by other authors altogether: The Nice Valour by Thomas Middleton; Wit at Several Weapons by Middleton & Rowley; The Laws of Candy by John Ford.
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1584
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1616-03-06
- Lugar de sepultura
- Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
- País (para mapa)
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Grace Dieu, Leicestershire, England
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England
- Educación
- Broadgates Hall
Inner Temple, London, England - Ocupaciones
- poet
playwright - Relaciones
- Jonson, Ben (master)
Fletcher, John (collaborator)
Beaumont, Sir John (brother) - Aviso de desambiguación
- The cataloguing in many places (even in reputable libraries) of works by the Jacobean playwrights Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and/or John Fletcher (1579-1625) and/or their various collaborators tends to be confusing. Works by Fletcher alone can be found catalogued under Beaumont or under Beaumont & Fletcher; works by Beaumont alone can be found catalogued under Fletcher or under Beaumont & Fletcher; collaborations by Beaumont & Fletcher can be found catalogued under Fletcher alone or under Beaumont alone; collaborations by Fletcher and Massinger can be found catalogued under Fletcher alone or under Beaumont & Fletcher; –and some works are catalogued correctly! Collected and selected editions usually include a mix. (These confusions occurred even in the 17th century.) Here’s a breakdown: it’s a lot, but all of these are present in single play volumes or in Beaumont & Fletcher collections listed on LT.
Works by Beaumont alone: The Knight of the Burning Pestle; Salmacis & Hermaphroditus; Masque of the Inner Temple.
Works by Fletcher alone: The Faithful Shepherdess; Bonduca; Valentinian; The Woman’s Prize, or, The Tamer Tamed; Monsieur Thomas; The Island Princess; The Loyal Subject; The Mad Lover; The Pilgrim; A Wife for a Month; Rule a Wife & Have a Wife; The Chances; The Wild-Goose Chase; Women Pleased; Wit without Money; The Humourous Lieutenant, or, Demetrius & Enanthe.
Works by Beaumont & Fletcher together: The Maid’s Tragedy; Philaster, or, Love Lies A-Bleeding; A King & No King; Cupid’s Revenge; The Scornful Lady; The Coxcomb; The Woman Hater; The Captain; Love’s Pilgrimage; The Noble Gentleman
Works by Beaumont & Fletcher and Philip Massinger: Thierry & Theodoret; Beggars Bush; Love’s Cure.
Works by Fletcher and Massinger: Barnavelt; The Custom of the Country; The Double Marriage; The Elder Brother; The False One; The Little French Lawyer; The Lovers’ Progress; The Prophetess; The Sea Voyage; The Spanish Curate; A Very Woman.
Works by Fletcher and various collaborators: The Fair Maid of the Inn (w/ Massinger, John Webster & John Ford); The Two Noble Kinsmen (w/ Shakespeare); Four Plays in One (w/ Nathan Field); The Queen of Corinth (w/ Massinger & Field); The Knight of Malta (w/ Massinger & Field); The Honest Man’s Fortune (w/ Massinger & Field & Cyril Tourneur); The Maid in the Mill (w/ William Rowley); The Night Walker (revised by James Shirley); Rollo Duke of Normandy, or, The Bloody Brother (w/ Massinger & ?Jonson, ?Chapman, ?Field);
Works Printed with the Beaumont & Fletcher canon but which are by other authors altogether: The Nice Valour by Thomas Middleton; Wit at Several Weapons by Middleton & Rowley; The Laws of Candy by John Ford.
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KBP is most admired as a metatheatrical satire of middle-class London merchants, filled with snatches of song by the lighthearted Master Merrythought. The main plot is the familiar romantic conflict of runaway lovers being kept apart by a father, a London merchant who wishes his daughter Luce to wed his old friend Humphrey, not his apprentice Jasper. But though the boy actors try valiantly to keep the story on track, their play is repeatedly and hilariously interrupted by auditors who become actors. A grocer and his wife climb from the audience to take up stools on the stage and demand that Rafe their apprentice be given a knightly costume and made the star of the performance. Soon he is acting out his own adventure, taken from popular prose romances of the time, featuring knights errant pricking across desert plains on their palfreys to rescue distressed damsels.
The adventurer Rafe, the titular "Knight of the Burning Pestle," undertakes quests worthy of Don Quixote though patriotically English - vanquishing the giant Barbaroso and releasing his syphilitic clients, charming the Princess of Moldavia, performing as Lord of May Day, mustering all of London's apprentices in a skirmish, and ending the comedy with a mournful death-speech. Though Rafe the knight momentarily loses in his duel with Jasper the lover, the story of the grocer's apprentice quite eclipses the plotted drama of the love-contest for the hand of Luce -- in part because of the deep pockets of the grocer, who is called upon in medias res to pay the bills incurred by Rafe's adventures. Throughout the performance the two chatty spectators argue with the players and each other, but by the end both stories are knitted up - and like Rosalind in As You Like It, the grocer's wife gets the last word in an epilogue.
This Regents Renaissance Drama edition offers a brief introduction to the play and two extensive, helpful appendices: the music for the nearly 20 songs that fill the play, and a century's chronology of crucial dates relevant to early modern drama.… (más)