BEAUMONT, THE DRAMATIST CHAPTER I Title: Francis Beaumont: Dramatist With Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, and of His Association with John Fletcher Author: Charles Mills Gayley Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Christine Aldridge, Transcriber's NoteFootnotes have been moved collectively to the chapter ends. Anchors and footnotes have been renumbered sequentially and links provided. In order to make this e-text viewable across the greatest variety of browsers the following character substitutions have been used: A broken bar character "¦" in place of the feminine caesura, which resembles a vertical ellipsis "...". A subscripted caret is used for the stress syllable symbol, which resembles an subscripted upside-down capitol V. Detailed notes about spelling variations, and other transcriber notes are located at the end of this e-text. By permission of the Right Hon. Lord Sackville, G. C. M. G. PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS BEAUMONT From the original painting at Knole Park By permission of the Right Hon. Lord Sackville, G. C. M. G. PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS BEAUMONT Francis Beaumont: Dramatist |