. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . o o o O w z o 2; s ^ ir. o O S «5 _^ D ?^ ^ la W « ca V 75 •~ u o /i, JOHN FLETCHER (1579-1625) was the son of Dr. Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, and hisfirst wife Ehzabeth Holland. For a time he was probably at CorpusChristi College, Cambridge, but little is known of his career beforethe period of his literary activity in conjunction with Beaumontwhich began in 1607. Among his early works a pastoral play calledThe FaUhfid Shepherdess, composed entirely by Fletcher, deservesmention as being one of the best examples of its ki
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . o o o O w z o 2; s ^ ir. o O S «5 _^ D ?^ ^ la W « ca V 75 •~ u o /i, JOHN FLETCHER (1579-1625) was the son of Dr. Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, and hisfirst wife Ehzabeth Holland. For a time he was probably at CorpusChristi College, Cambridge, but little is known of his career beforethe period of his literary activity in conjunction with Beaumontwhich began in 1607. Among his early works a pastoral play calledThe FaUhfid Shepherdess, composed entirely by Fletcher, deservesmention as being one of the best examples of its kind. Owing toBeaumonts early death comparatively few of Fletchers works werewritten with his assistance. Many of them were his own unaidedcompositions, while some were written in collaboration with Massin-ger, Field, and others of his circle. Some fifty plays have beenascribed wholly or in part to Fletchers pen, and this may be takenas a fair indication of his extraordinary activity as a writer, when it isremembered that his literary career covered less than
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