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Title: The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes
Volume I.

Author: Beaumont and Fletcher

Release Date: January 7, 2004 [EBook #10620]

Language: English

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THE WORKS OF FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER

In ten volumes

Vol. I

FRANCIS BEAUMONT

Born 1584

Died 1616

JOHN FLETCHER

Born 1579

Died 1625

THE MAIDS TRAGEDY

PHILASTER

A KING, AND NO KING

THE SCORNFUL LADY

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

THE TEXT EDITED BY

ARNOLD GLOVER, M.A.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE AND THE INNER TEMPLE

NOTE.

The first collected edition of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher was
published in 1647, in folio (12 1/2 ins. x 8 1/8 ins. is the measurement
of the copy used for the purpose of collation). The title-page runs
thus:--

Comedies | and | Tragedies |

{ Francis Beaumont }
|written by { And } Gentlemen. |
{ John Fletcher }

Never printed before, | And now published by
the Authours | Originall Copies. | _Si quid habent
veri Vatum praesagia, vivam.|London_, | Printed for
_Humphrey Robinson_, at the three _Pidgeons_, and for |
_Humphrey Moseley_ at the _Princes Armes in St Pauls_.

This collection, which is referred to as the First Folio throughout the
present edition, contained all the authors' previously unpublished plays
(34) except _The Wild-Goose Chase_, which, at the date of the Folio, was
supposed to be lost. The dedicatory epistles, commendatory poem, and
Catalogue of Plays, prefixed to the First Folio, are reprinted in the
preliminary pages at the end of this Note (pp. ix--lvii).

The second collected edition appeared in 1679 in folio (14-3/8 ins.
x 8-1/4 ins.); a reprint of the title-page is given on p. lix of the
present volume. This collection, referred to henceforth