The Fair Maid of the Inn : "Plays have their fates, not as in their true sense They're understood, but as the influence Of idle custom, madly works upon The dross of many tongu'd opinion".

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fletcher, John.

Contributor:

Massinger, Philip.

Webster, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (108 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Fair Maid of the Inn

Place of Publication:

London : Copyright Group, 2018.

Summary:

The play was licensed by the Master of the Revels some 6 months after the death of Fletcher in August 1626. The play is thought to have been unfinished at the time of Fletcher's death and was completed and reworked by a variety of collaborators most likely to include (but perhaps not limited to) Philip Massinger, John Webster The Faithful Shepherdess, his adaptation of Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il Pastor Fido, which was performed by the Blackfriars Children in 1608. By 1609, however, he had found his stride. With his collaborator John Beaumont, he wrote Philaster, which became a hit for the King's Men and began a profitable association between Fletcher and that company. Philaster appears also to have begun a trend for tragicomedy. By the middle of the 1610s, Fletcher's plays had achieved a popularity that rivalled Shakespeare's and cemented the pre-eminence of the King's Men in Jacobean London. After his frequent early collaborator John Beaumont's early death in 1616, Fletcher continued working, both singly and in collaboration, until his own death in 1625. By that time, he had produced, or had been credited with, close to fifty plays.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78737-920-5

OCLC:

1370496620