Beaumont was a boy of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace Dieu, Leicestershire, a justice of the most common pleas. He was innate at a personal seat & was educated at Broadgates Hall (at present Pembroke College) in Oxford at a age of Xiii. Resulting a demise of his father inside 1598, he left university without the degree & followed around his father's footsteps by typing a Inner Temple in London (1600).

Accounts indicate that notwithstanding that Beaumont did non function for yearn as a attorney. He became the student of poet Ben Jonson, being as well familiar with Drayton & more poets & playwright, & decided that was in which his passions lay. His number 1 act, Salmacis & Hermaphroditus, appeared within 1602. A 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica describes the function when "not on the whole discreditable to a lad of eighteen, fresh from the popular love-poems of Marlowe and Shakespeare, which it naturally exceeds in long-winded and fantastic diffusion of episodes and conceits". Around 1607, Beaumont wrote the prolusion to a act of Jonson's.

Beaumont's collaboration using Fletcher probably began when early when 1605, however a pair truly became famed around 1608 by having a writing & production of Philaster. It sleep in the equivalent home & got practically the community of goods until Beaumont's marriage within 1613 to Ursula, daughter & co-heiress of Henry Isley of Sundridge inside Kent, by whom he experienced 2 girl. Beaumont died inside 1616 & is buried within Westminster Abbey. Although now Beaumont is remembered as a playwright, when you took his life-time he was celebrated as a poet.

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Truth extent to which for each one play was written by Fletcher & by Beaumont is unknown (compare besides a shared out song-writing of John Lennon and Paul McCartney), and it's today typically agreed that others collaborated sustaining a two to a bit of extent—Massinger, Rowley, Shirley, & potentially Shakespecome, though the below categorizations are usually agreed upon.

When regards their several powers, Beaumont is held to will have a graver, solider, & supplementary stately genius, when Fletcher excelled around brightness, wit, & gaiety. A previous was a stronger witharound judgment, a latter in fancy. A plays contain several super beautiful lyrics, however come typically stained by gross indelicacy.

Joint works by using John Fletcher

Exclusively authored works