from the first folio of 1647The plays generally recognised as Beaumont/Fletcher collaborations: •
The Woman Hater, comedy (1606; printed 1607) • ''
Cupid's Revenge,'' tragedy (c. 1607–12; printed 1615) •
Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding, tragicomedy (c. 1609; printed 1629) • ''
The Maid's Tragedy,'' tragedy (c. 1609; printed 1619) •
A King and No King, tragicomedy (1611; printed 1619) •
The Captain, comedy (c. 1609–12; printed 1647) •
The Scornful Lady, comedy (c. 1613; printed 1616) • ''
Love's Pilgrimage,'' tragicomedy (c. 1615–16; 1647) •
The Noble Gentleman, comedy (licensed 3 February 1626; printed 1647). Beaumont/Fletcher plays, later revised by Massinger: •
Thierry and Theodoret, tragedy (c. 1607?; printed 1621) •
The Coxcomb, comedy (1608–10; printed 1647) • ''
Beggars' Bush,'' comedy (c. 1612–13?; revised 1622?; printed 1647) • ''
Love's Cure,'' comedy (c. 1612–13?; revised 1625?; printed 1647). Due to Fletcher's distinctive pattern of contractional forms and linguistic preferences ('
em for
them,
ye for
you, etc.), his hand can be fairly readily distinguished from Beaumont's in their collaborative works. In
A King and No King, Beaumont wrote Acts I, II, and III in their entirety, plus scene IV, iv and V, ii and iv, while Fletcher wrote only the first three scenes in Act IV (IV, i-iii) and the first and third scenes of Act V (V, i and iii). The play is more Beaumont's than it is Fletcher's. Beaumont also dominates in ''The Maid's Tragedy
, The Noble Gentleman,
Philaster
, and The Woman Hater
. In contrast, The Captain
, The Coxcomb
, Cupid's Revenge
, Beggars' Bush
, and The Scornful Lady'' contain more of Fletcher's work than Beaumont's. The cases of
Thierry and Theodoret and ''Love's Cure'' are somewhat confused by Massinger's revision; but in these plays too, Fletcher appears the dominant partner. Critics and scholars debate other plays. Fletcher clearly wrote the last two quarters of
Four Plays in One, another play in his canon—and he clearly didn't write the first two sections. Many scholars attribute the play's first half to Nathan Field—though some prefer Beaumont. Given the limits of the existing evidence, some of these questions may be unresolvable with currently available techniques. ==References==