Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . does, upon my and I both shall meet my father he shall bid you welcome. Dor. .\ blessed day ! We all long to be there, but lose the way. There are editions of (none complete) l)y Gifford(1805; new cd. 1813), Hartley Coleridge (with Fords works, 1840),Cumiias^ain (1867), and S)*moiis (1837-89). 468 Beaumont and Fletcher Bcaiiaiioiit and Fletclicr. two of the greatest Eliza
Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . does, upon my and I both shall meet my father he shall bid you welcome. Dor. .\ blessed day ! We all long to be there, but lose the way. There are editions of (none complete) l)y Gifford(1805; new cd. 1813), Hartley Coleridge (with Fords works, 1840),Cumiias^ain (1867), and S)*moiis (1837-89). 468 Beaumont and Fletcher Bcaiiaiioiit and Fletclicr. two of the greatest Elizabethan dramatists, left intheir joint work the most memorable outcome of aliterary partnership, of a mysterious double per-sonality. Heretofore dramatic collaboration hadbeen generally brief and incidental, confined to afew scenes or a single play. But Beaumont andFletcher lived together for ten years, and wrote aseries of dramas, passionate, romantic, and comic,with such perfect co-operation that their names,their genius, and their fame have been inseparably(onjoined or indissolubly blended. Shakespeareinspired these kindred souls. They appearedwhen his dramatic supremacy was undisputed,. FRANXIS BEAUMONT. From an Engraving by P. Audinet in the British Museum. and, especially in the comedies, they could notbut be touched by such a master-spirit. ButBeaumont rendered enthusiastic homage to BenJonson, and several of his plays show abundanttraces of Jonsons influence. Francis Beaumontwas the younger by five years, and died nineyears before his colleague. The son of a judge,a member of an ancient family settled at Grace-dieu, in Leicestershire, he was born in 1584,and educated at Oxford. He became a studentof the Inner Temple, probably to gratify hisfather, but does not seem to have prosecutedthe study of the law. In 1602 he published apoetical expansion of a tale from Ovid, and be-came an intimate of Ben Jonson and the circle ofwits who met at the Mermaid Tavern. He wasburied on
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