Written by Francis Beaumont in 1607.

A good version for modern readers is The New Mermaid’s edition, edited by Michael Hattaway (A & C Black and W. W. Norton in 1969, reprinted in 1986).  Contains footnotes that explain some of the more obscure language.

1.  Plays by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.

2.  Criticism/Interpretation of Beaumont.

3.  A good general handbook for Beaumont, Fletcher and other English dramatists of the era:

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama, edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway:  Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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