Introduction: Shakespeare and Fletcher, Fletcher and Shakespeare

McManus, Clare; Munro, Lucy

doi:10.1080/17450918.2011.589074

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“…Clare McManus and Lucy Munro have already outlined the need for a new edition of Fletcher, and the point stands for Beaumont too: the standard edition -Fredson Bowers' monumental Dramatic Works in the Beaumont andFletcher Canon (1966-1996) -is rigorous and scholarly, but owing to its use of old-spelling, its heavy, multiple-play volumes, and almost entirely textual focus, keeps both actor and director at arms' length. 51 Certainly, the less well-known Beaumont plays are not easily available and even some of the better-known ones could be updated. At the time of writing, complete works of John Ford, James Shirley, Thomas Heywood, and John Marston are in progress.…”

Section: Beaumont and Beyondmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Future Francis Beaumont

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2017

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This essay attends to Beaumont’s recent performance and reception history, documenting a range of academic and popular responses to demonstrate the challenges and affordances of engaging with Beaumont’s plays. The first section examines several twenty-first century performances of Beaumont plays, focusing especially on the Globe’s stimulating production of The Knight of the Burning Pestle. The second section considers how Beaumont was both acknowledged and ignored in 2016, the year of his 400th anniversary. The final section suggests some avenues for further research into the performance of Beaumont’s plays.

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Section: Beaumont and Beyondmentioning

confidence: 99%