- 1Epigraph
- 2Dedication — Preface
- 3Beaumont, the Dramatist
- 4Chapter II — Beaumont’s Family; His Early Years: Grace-Dieu, Oxford
- 5Chapter III — at the Inns of Court and Chancery; the Poems Assign…
- 6Chapter IV — The Vaux Cousins and the Gunpowder Plot
- 7Chapter V — Fletcher’s Family, and His Youth
- 8Chapter VI — Some Early Plays of Beaumont and of Fletcher
- 9Chapter VII — The “Banke-Side” and the Period of the Partnership
- 10Chapter VIII — Relations With Shakespeare, Jonson, and Others in th…
- 11Chapter IX — The “Masque of the Inner Temple”: The Pastoralists, a…
- 12Chapter X — An Intersecting Circle of Jovial Sort
- 13Chapter XI — Beaumont and Sir Philip Sidney’s Daughter; Relations W…
- 14Chapter XII — Beaumont’s Marriage and Death; the Surviving Family
- 15Chapter XIII — The Personality, and the Contemporary Reputation of…
- 16Chapter XIV — Tradition, and Traditional Criticism
- 17Chapter XV — A Few Words of Fletcher’s Later Years
- 18Chapter XVI — Statement of the Problem; Critical Apparatus
- 19Chapter XVII — The Delimitation of the Field
- 20Chapter XVIII — The Versification of Fletcher and of Beaumont
- 21Chapter XIX — Fletcher’s Diction
- 22Chapter XX — Fletcher’s Mental Habit
- 23Chapter XXI — Beaumont’s Diction
- 24Chapter XXII — Beaumont’s Mental Habit
- 25Chapter XXIII — The Authorship of Three Disputed Plays
- 26Chapter XXIV — “The Woman-Hater,” and “The Knight”
- 27Chapter XXV — The Five Central Plays
- 28Chapter XXVI — The Last Play
- 29Chapter XXVII — The Dramatic Art, Principally of Beaumont
- 30Chapter XXVIII — Did The Beaumont ‘Romance’ Influence Shakespeare?
- 31Chapter XXIX — Conclusion
- 32Appendix — Table A. Plantagenet, Comyn, Beaumont, and Villiers
- 33Table B
- 34Table C
- 35Table D
- 36Table E
Francis Beaumont: Dramatist
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