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Fletcher

 

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John Fletcher : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William brought his Mattress out, and lay down on the floor. I read to him the life of Ben Jonson, and some short poems of his, which were too interesting for him, and would not let him go to sleep. I had begun with Fletcher, but he was too dull for me.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and Fletcher : A School History of England

'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. Fletcher had just published ...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : [unknown]

'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke      Print: Book

  

Giles Fletcher : [poems complete works]

'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Drummond (of Harthornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with "also rans" Cowley, Milton and "Hudibras" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson      Print: Book

  

Phineas Fletcher : [poems complete works]

'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Drummond (of Harthornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with "also rans" Cowley, Milton and "Hudibras" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : A wife for a month

'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a play of Flechers, being "A wife for a month" - wherein no great wit or language.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : The Custome of the Country

'So anon they went away and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country", which is a very poor one methinks.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : The mad lover

'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

Fletcher : unknown

'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Cupid's Revenge

'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Faithfull Shepheardesse, The

'Shelley reads the first act of the faithful Shepherdess aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Faithfull Shepheardesse, The

'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Wife for a Month, A

'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Fletcher (?and Massinger) : The Beggar's Bush

'Friday March 17th. [...] Read [...] the Play of Beggar's Bush.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman Hater

'Saturday March 18th. [...] Read the Woman Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. Excellent Spy scene which would apply to the present ministers.' [...] 'Sunday March 19th. [...] Finish Woman-Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd

'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Finish the fall of Sejanus by Ben Jonson begin the Woman's prize or the Tamer tam'd by Beaumont & Fletcher.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd

'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : Wit at Several Weapons

'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : Wit Without Money

'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Noble Gentleman

'Thursday April 27th. [...] Read Noble Gentleman of Beaumont & Fletcher.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger : The Elder Brother

'Sunday April 30th. [...] Read Elder Brother [quotes two lines from Act II scene 1]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret

'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of Beaumont & Fletcher.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Chances, The

'Read the Chances'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Night Walker or, the Little Thief

'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Love's Pilgrimage

'Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : plays (extracts)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836: 'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, with respect to the old dramatists! -- for indeed I have had little opportunity of walking with them in their purple & fine linen. Only [italics]extracts[end italics] from Bea[u]mont & Fletcher -- & Ford, -- have past before my eyes!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : The Faithful Shepherdess

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 February 1837: 'I have been reading & rejoicing in your Faithful Shepherdess. The general conception & plan are feeble & imperfect -- do you not admit it? but the work in detail -- how prodigal it is in exquisite poetry'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

John Fletcher : Double Marriage, The

'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giuliano - Reads the double marriage aloud'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end italics] [...] and how it has been declared that no theatre can exist at the present day without a saloon -- & how, if it could, the effect wd be to force vicious persons & their indecencies into full view in the boxes --!! Now this appears to me enough to constitute a repulsive objection! & I who have read hard at the old dramatists since I last spoke to you about them, -- Beaumont & Fletcher Massinger Ben Jonson all Dodsley's collection, -- can yet see that objection in all its repulsiveness! .. & read on!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Phineas Fletcher : The Purple Island, or, the Isle of Man

Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple island. the specimens of the poem in Headleys selection & Warton are beautiful — you promised me some information relative to a late edition. the other remark is that two more letters will probably grow out of this. the last stanza has given birth to a train of thoughts which wait your next for maturity. your last letter I found on my return from Bath — I had prolonged my stay there to enjoy Lovells company. you know the no-ceremony I stand upon when I wish to make a friend — it may be singular but I am sure to me singularly fortunate. as a poet in some walks I do not know his equal — in the plaintive & soft kinds — elegy & sonnet for instance but this is not his only merit — epistles & various other species he has handled with peculiar delicacy. I do not scruple to say that for elegance & simplicity of versification I know no Author in our language that surpasses him. most probably we shall soon publish together.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

  

Shakespeare and Fletcher : The Two Noble Kinsmen

F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evans and Miss Brain taking respectively the character of Emilia and her maid

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: T. C. Elliott      Print: Book

  

Shakespeare and Fletcher : The Two Noble Kinsmen

F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evans and Miss Brain taking respectively the character of Emilia and her maid

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katharine S. Evans      Print: Book

  

Shakespeare and Fletcher : The Two Noble Kinsmen

F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evans and Miss Brain taking respectively the character of Emilia and her maid

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E. Dorothy Brain      

 

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