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was the first play staged, and ran for twelve nights in a row—highly unusual in the repertory system of the time. The play remained popular and was performed repeatedly, in various adaptations, into the early eighteenth century. Adapted forms of the play were published in 1697 and 1717, while the
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Fletcher alone—a verdict that is generally accepted, since Fletcher's distinctive stylistic profile is continuous through the play. The MS. has been called "the most beautiful example of Crane's calligraphy that we have."
238:. The plot centers on the love between Demetrius and an obscure young woman named Celia—who at the end of the play turns out to be Enanthe, the daughter of King Seleucus and so a suitable match for a prince.
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The Later
Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama.
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The Plays of
Beaumont and Fletcher: An Attempt to Determine Their Respective Shares and the Shares of Others.
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A View of the
English Stage: Or, A Series of Dramatic Criticisms
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Wilson, F. P. "Ralph Crane, Scrivener to the King's
Players."
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1096:† = Not published in the Beaumont and Fletcher folios
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Cambridge, MA, Library of
Harvard University, 1890.
278:Clifford Leech, quoted in Logan and Smith, p. 40.
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364:Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1978.
154:Comic material from the play was adapted into a
383:Beaumont and Fletcher on the Restoration Stage.
287:F. P. Wilson, quoted in Logan and Smith, p. 70.
385:Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1926.
360:Logan, Terence P., and Denzell S. Smith, eds.
540:The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn
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296:Sprague, pp. 4-5, 10, 15, 20, 76, 109, 121-3.
162:period. Like many plays in Fletcher's canon,
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61:The drama was initially published in the
376:A Bibliography of Beaumont and Fletcher.
371:New Haven, Yale University Press, 1927.
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77:The second Beaumont/Fletcher folio of
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952:with Massinger, Chapman & Jonson
1129:Plays by John Fletcher (playwright)
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962:with Massinger, Ford & Webster
357:London, Chatto & Windus, 1962.
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1119:Plays set in the 4th century BC
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212:English Renaissance drama
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967:The Fair Maid of the Inn
878:The Honest Man's Fortune
767:The Little French Lawyer
641:The Faithful Shepherdess
355:The John Fletcher Plays.
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1071:The History of Cardenio
957:Rollo, Duke of Normandy
704:The Humorous Lieutenant
381:Sprague, Arthur Colby.
314:Logan and Smith, p. 41.
208:The Humorous Lieutenant
188:The Humorous Lieutenant
164:The Humorous Lieutenant
25:The Humorous Lieutenant
993:Wit at Several Weapons
339:George Bell & Sons
143:Demetrius and Enanthe,
43:Alexander's Successors
920:The Two Noble Kinsmen
854:Thierry and Theodoret
428:Beaumont and Fletcher
37:Demetrius and Enanthe
947:The Maid in the Mill
885:The Queen of Corinth
795:The Lovers' Progress
725:The Wild Goose Chase
253:are out of balance.
73:Date and performance
1083:(possibly based on
892:The Knight of Malta
781:The Double Marriage
711:The Island Princess
623:The Noble Gentleman
468:William Shakespeare
367:Oliphant, E. H. C.
216:Alexander the Great
802:The Spanish Curate
732:A Wife for a Month
602:A King and No King
595:The Maid's Tragedy
182:opened on 8 April
99:William Ecclestone
50:era stage play, a
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868:Love's Cure
718:The Pilgrim
683:The Chances
655:Valentinian
588:The Captain
574:The Coxcomb
168:Restoration
160:Interregnum
158:during the
135:Ralph Crane
54:written by
52:tragicomedy
1114:1619 plays
1108:Categories
1038:King's Men
913:Henry VIII
897:with Field
843:and others
493:Ben Jonson
337:. London:
322:References
236:Lysimachus
222:, his son
180:Drury Lane
150:After 1642
129:Manuscript
95:John Lowin
1012:(Shirley)
760:Barnavelt
751:Massinger
581:Philaster
488:John Ford
347:645070404
224:Demetrius
220:Antigonus
1085:Cardenio
841:Fletcher
633:Fletcher
550:Beaumont
525:Beaumont
331:(1906).
228:Seleucus
203:The plot
170:era, in
137:for Sir
48:Jacobean
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1062:Related
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390:Library
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232:Ptolemy
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