Twilight Pictures: Internet Beaumont and Fletcher Editions

Twilight Pictures aims to provide texts of all the plays that can be attributed to the Beaumont and Fletcher canon in a format that best suits and exploits the electronic medium, along with supporting materials, elaborate background information, and textual apparatus for both the ordinary and the academic reader. What's New!

General Introduction to the Site

The texts contained within this site may be viewed in:

alphabetical order, and in
chronological order

The site is also arranged in the following publication groupings:

the plays in the First Folio of 1647,
the plays in the Second Folio of 1679,
play editions published outside the First and Second Folios (mostly Quarto editions), and
Non-dramatic poetry.

Considering the size of the canon of plays that can be attributed to John Fletcher and his collaborators, it is arguable that they are the most ignored of all early seventeenth century English drama, despite the fact that in their own century their plays were often as popular as those by Shakespeare and Jonson. To this day no complete and inexpensive collection of their works exists, either in print or on the Internet. It is the hope of editors and contributors to this site to redress this imbalance by offering searchable editions of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon and much more.

Shortlisted for an award by Bibliomania as a site that is
"one of the best for both content and quality"!

This site is made possible by support from the School of English, Media Studies & Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia.

This site updated on Friday, June 14, 2002.

Since 6 October 1999
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