The Nice Valour or, The Passionate Madman : “It's grown in fashion of late in these days, To come and beg a sufferance to our Plays Faith Gentlemen, our Poet ever writ Language so good, mixt with such sprightly wit”.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Middleton, Thomas.

Contributor:

Fletcher, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Nice Valour Or, The Passionate Madman

Place of Publication:

London : Copyright Group, 2018.

Summary:

Previously attributed to Fletcher 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 pl

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-78737-922-1

OCLC:

1370494323