Francis Beaumont: Dramatist

230

Chapter XXVIII, Did the Beaumont 'Romance' Influence Shakespeare?

231

Lines are numbered as in the Variorum edition.

232

Fletcher affects this figure, cf. A Wife for a Month, Act II, 2, lines 47-48.

233

Cf. his lines in Maides Tragedy, IV, 1, 252-254; in King and No King, IV, 2, 57-62; Philaster, V, 4, 114; Hum. Lieut., IV, 5, 51; Mad Lover, III, 4, 105; Loyall Subject, III, 6, 141; IV, 3, 70; Wife for a Month, IV, 5, 38, 39.

234

The best editions of Philaster since the time of Dyce are those of F. S. Boas, in the Temple Dramatists (1898), P. A. Daniel, in the Variorum (1904), Glover and Waller, in the Camb. Engl. Classics (1905), and A. H. Thorndike in Belles Lettres (1906).

235

Thorndike, for instance, – who selects lines 22-40 as an instance of Beaumont's skill in imitating natural conversation. Influence of B. and F. on Shakespeare, p. 129.

236

Numbering of the Variorum.

237

Q2 "eies."

238

II, 1, 127.

239

III, 1, 221.

240

V, 3, 244.

241

P. E. More, The Nation, N. Y., April 24, 1913.

242

The best editions of M. T., since the time of Dyce, are those of P. A. Daniel, in the Variorum (1904), Glover and Waller, in the Cambridge English Classics (1905), and A. H. Thorndike, in the Belles Lettres (1906).

243

I, 3; II, 2; III, 2; IV, 1; V, 4.

244

For conjectural sources see Chapter VII, above. The best editions to-day are the Variorum and Alden's (Belles Lettres).

245

Murray, Eng. Dram. Comp., I, 153; Warwick Bond, Variorum Ed. of B. and F., I, 359.

246

Chr. Eng. Dr., I, 181.

247

See Bond, Variorum, B. and F., I, 417; and references as given there, and by Dyce, to The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Captain, and other plays.

248

See S. R. Gardiner, History of England, Vol. II (1607-1616), pp. 165, 218, 225, 247, 255, 316, 321, 324, 327, 368, for this and the following concerning Sarmiento.

249

Gardiner, Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage, pp. 6, 7, 69.

250

All critics agree in assigning I, 1, to Beaumont. They differ concerning the rest of I and II.

251

So, also, Fleay, G. C. Macaulay, and Oliphant; Boyle, N. S. S. Trans., XXVI (1886), and Bond, u. s., p. 360.

252

Variorum, I, 360.

253

The best editions of The Scornful Ladie since Dyce's time are that of R. Warwick Bond, in the Variorum, and of Glover and Waller in the Camb. Engl. Classics.

254

Thorndike, Influence of B. and F., p. 123.

255

The Fellows and Followers of Shakespeare, Part Two, in Representative English Comedies, Vol. III, now in press.

256

The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakespeare, 1901. See M. W. Sampson's critique in J. Ger. Phil., II, 241.

257

See Morton Luce, Hand Book to Shakespeare's Works, p. 338.

258

Mr. Paul Elmer More, The Nation, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1912, April 24, 1913, May 1, 1913.

259

Chapters XXII and XXV, above.

260

They are well presented by Miss Hatcher in her John Fletcher; and they are again discussed in my forthcoming third volume of Representative English Comedies.

261

See again Miss Hatcher's work, and G. C. Macaulay, Francis Beaumont, A Critical Study, especially pp. 186-188; and my essay on The Fellows and Followers of Shakespeare (Part Two) in the volume mentioned above.