Excerpt from The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Vol. 6 of 14: With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes; Containing Bonduca; The Island Princess; The Loyal Subject; Monsieur Thomas To point out each individual passage to merited admiration, would be a needless encroachment on the reader's time but there are a few which we cannot resist noticing. The glorious speech of Caratach on the duties of a people invaded by foreign foes, is infinitely superior to a similar one which saved the tragedy of Pizarro from the fate it so richly deserved. The soliloquy of the saine character, at the beginning of the last act, breathes the very soul of poetry; and the followmg personification of Death, ran ging over a field of battle; may be quoted as one of the most ter ribly grand that our language has produced, and yet as being only one in a drama containing many others of scarcely inferior splenv dour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is the tenth and final volume in a ten-volume series of the critical old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical principles. This volume contains the texts of six plays written by Fletcher and his collaborators, Nathan Field, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Ford and John Webster. Each play is introduced by a discussion of the text and authorship, has variant readings in footnotes, and is followed by full textual notes and lists of press-variants, emendations of accidentals and historical collations. At the back of this concluding volume there is a useful index showing how the plays are distributed between the volumes, and a table giving the authorship of the plays.

This is the ninth volume in the definitive series of critical, old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical principles. This volume contains six plays written by Fletcher and his collaborators, Philip Massinger and William Rowley. Each play is introduced by a discussion of the text and authorship, and is accompanied by detailed textual notes, a list of press-variants, emendations of accidentals and a historical collation. The plays are The Sea Voyage, The Double Marriage, The Prophetess, The Little French Lawyer, The Elder Brother and The Maid in the Mill.