Fletcher, John
Fletcher, John ( 1579 – 1625 ),born at Rye in Sussex, where his father (subsequently chaplain at the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and bishop of Bristol and of London) was then minister. John Fletcher was nephew of Giles Fletcher the elder and cousin of Giles the younger and Phineas Fletcher . He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and, his father dying (in debt and under royal displeasure) in 1596 , he was left to make his own way in the world. Little is known of his early life; about 1606 he began to write plays in collaboration with F. Beaumont , and, before his death of the plague, he produced some 15 plays with Beaumont , some 16 of which he was sole author, and collaborated with Massinger , Rowley , Middleton , Jonson , Chapman , Shakespeare and others in the writing of many other works.
The principal plays of which Fletcher was probably sole author are: The...
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