John fletcher music4/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They are best known for developing English tragicomedy, the new, hybrid genre that dominated the English stage for nearly a century and substantively influenced future English drama. After individual experimental plays – Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607) and Fletcher’s The Faithful Shepherdess (1608–10) – the playwrights achieved spectacular collaborative success. Eliot’s harsh assessment: ‘The blossoms of Beaumont and Fletcher’s imagination draw no substance from the soil, but are cut and slightly withered flowers stuck into sand’. Generations of critics would probably agree with T. ![]() ![]() Dryden’s affirmations notwithstanding, their popularity quickly faded thereafter, and Beaumont and Fletcher have been in near oblivion for centuries. 1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) dominated the English stage for much of the seventeenth century. Their Plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the Stage two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare’s or Johnson’s.(John Dryden) Shakespeare’s contemporaries Francis Beaumont (c. ![]()
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