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  • Adkins, Mary Grace Muse. "The Citizens in Philaster: Their Function and Significance." Studies in Philology XLIII, No. 1 (January 1946): 203-12. (Finds Beaumont and Fletcher's treatment of the commons in Philaster indicative of the "shifting political current" in the Jacobean period.)
  • Andrews, Michael Cameron. "Beaumont and Fletcher." In This Action of Our Death: The Performance of Death in English Renaissance Drama, pp. 72-90. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989. (Investigates the emphasis on the notion of the "exemplary death" depicted in Beaumont and Fletcher's plays.)
  • Bliss, Lee. "Collaboration and Success." In Francis Beaumont, pp. 56-86. Boston: Twayne, 1987. (Introductory commentary on Cupid's Revenge, The Faithful Shepherdess, and Philaster.)
  • Broude, Ronald. "Divine Right and Divine Retribution in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy." In Shakespeare and Dramatic Tradition: Essays in Honor of S.F. Johnson, edited by W.R. Elton and William B. Long, pp. 246-63. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989. (Examines Jacobean views on providence, justice, and the divine right of kings as depicted in The Maid's Tragedy.)
  • Danby, John F. "The Maid's Tragedy." In Poets on Fortune's Hill, pp. 184-206. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1952. (Analyzes the play as a composition aimed at an aristocratic audience.)
  • Gayley, Charles Mills. "The 'Banke-Side' and the Period of the Partnership." In Beaumont, the Dramatist, A Portrait, With Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, and of His Association With John Fletcher, pp. 95-113. New York: The Century Co. 1914. (An overview of Beaumont and Fletcher's collaboration; pays particular attention to the dating of performances.)
  • Gossett, Suzanne. "Masque Influence on the Dramaturgy of Beaumont and Fletcher." Modern Philology 69, No. 1 (August 1971): 199-208. (Examines how the tradition of court masques influenced the tragicomedies of Beaumont and Fletcher.)
  • Hoy, Cyrus. "The Shares of Fletcher and His Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon." Studies in Bibliography 8-15 (1956-1962). (Seven-part examination of the respective shares of Beaumont and Fletcher in their joint works and of the possibility that other writers contributed to the dramas.)
  • Leech, Clifford. The John Fletcher Plays. London: Chatto & Windus, 1962, 180 p. (Critical monograph which focuses on "some dozen plays to illustrate the variety of Fletcher's work.")
  • Masefield, John. "Beaumont and Fletcher." The Atlantic Monthly 199, No. 6 (June 1957): 71-4. (Offers compact biographical information.)
  • Maxwell, Baldwin. "The Attitude toward the Duello in the Beaumont and Fletcher Plays." In Studies in Beaumont, Fletcher, and Massinger, pp. 84-106. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939. (Discusses differing attitudes toward duelling in Beaumont and Fletcher's plays, suggesting that these offer clues as to the dates of composition.)
  • McMullan, Gordon. The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994, 338 p. (Focuses chiefly on Fletcher's later political plays, but also includes a chapter on "Collaboration.")
  • Mincoff, Marco. "The Social Background of Beaumont and Fletcher." English Miscellany I (1950): 1-30. (Places Beaumont and Fletcher within the atmosphere of change, social crisis, and revolt in the Jacobean period.)
  • Mizener, Arthur. "The High Design of A King and No King." Modern Philology XXXVIII, No. 2 (November 1940): 133-54. (Argues that in A King and No King Beaumont and Fletcher sought theatrical effect rather than moral significance.)
  • Neill, Michael. "'The Simetry, Which Gives a Poem Grace': Masque, Imagery, and the Fancy of The Maid's Tragedy." Renaissance Drama Vol 3 (1970): 111-35. (Considers the structural function of the wedding masque in The Maid's Tragedy.)
  • Neill, Michael. "The Defence of Contraries: Skeptical Paradox in A King and No King." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 XXI, No. 2 (Spring 1981): 319-32. (Examines the play as a kind of "discordia concors" which reconciles the "contrary demands of tragedy and comedy.")
  • Ornstein, Robert. "John Marston, Beaumont and Fletcher." In The Moral Vision of Jacobean Tragedy, pp. 151-69. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1960. (Focuses particularly on Fletcher's plays, which, Ornstein claims, "indicate all too clearly the decline of the Jacobean stage after its first golden decade.")
  • Pearse, Nancy Cotton. "Critical Attitudes toward Beaumont and Fletcher." In John Fletcher's Chastity Plays: Mirrors of Modesty, pp. 17-29. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1973. (Surveys critical responses to the representation of sexuality in Beaumont and Fletcher's plays.)
  • Ribner, Irving. An introduction to Jacobean Tragedy: The Quest for Moral Order, pp. 1-18. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962. (Charges that The Maid's Tragedy fails to resolve the ethical issues it raises.)
  • Smith, Denzell S. "Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher." In The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama, edited by Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, pp. 3-89. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978. (Comprehensive bibliographical survey.)
  • Turner, Robert. "Heroic Passion in the Early Tragicomedies of Beaumont and Fletcher." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England I, (1984): 109-30. (Examines The Faithful Shepherdess, Philaster, and A King and No King in light of tragicomic depictions of heroism and "extravagant passion.")
  • Turner, Robert K. "The Morality of A King and No King." Renaissance Papers (1958, 1959, 1960): 93-103. (Asserts that A King and No King presents an immoral value system in which "indulgence becomes not only respectable but very nearly sanctified.")
  • Wallis, Lawrence B. "Prologue to Success." In Fletcher, Beaumont, and Company: Entertainers to the Jacobean Gentry, pp. 177-99. New York: King's Crown Press, 1947. (Focuses on Beaumont and Fletcher's apprentice works, their early failures, and their appeal to aristocratic theatergoers.)
  • Wells, Stanley. English Drama (Excluding Shakespeare): Select Bibliographical Guides. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975, 303 p. (Includes a brief bibliographical essay on Beaumont and Fletcher.)
  • Wilson, Harold S. "Philaster and Cymbeline." In English Institute Essays, edited by Alan S. Downer, pp. 146-67. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. (Disputes claims made by previous critics that Shakespeare's Cymbeline was modeled after Philaster.)
  • Wilson, John Harold. The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Restoration Drama. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1928, 156 p. (Argues that Restoration comic dramatists owed much to Beaumont and Fletcher.)
  • Woodson, William C. "The Casuistry of Innocence in A King and No King and Its Implications for Tragicomedy." English Literary Renaissance 8, No. 3, (Autumn, 1978): 312-28. (Maintains that Beaumont and Fletcher's drama presents an ironic critique of Protestant beliefs regarding the "paradox of innocent sinners.")

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