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John Fletcher


Born
Rye, Sussex, England
Genre
Theatre, Poetry


born December 1579
died August 1625

English playwright John Fletcher collaborated with Francis Beaumont on romantic comedies, including Philaster (1610) and The Maid's Tragedy (1611).

John Fletcher identified as a Jacobean. He followed William Shakespeare as house for the men of the king among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivaled that of his predecessor.

In 1606, he began to appear as an author for the Children of the Queen's Revels, then performing at the Blackfriars theater. Commendatory verses by Richard Brome in the Fletcher 1647 folio place Fletcher in the company of Ben Jonson; a comment of Jonson's to Drummond corroborates this claim, althoug ...more

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“Great Actions speak Great Minds.”
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“Deeds, not words shall speak me.”
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“Our acts our Angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
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