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Author Description born 1584 <br /><br />English poet <b>Francis Beaumont</b> wrote his major works, plays, including <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2048536.The_Maid_s_Tragedy" title="The Maid's Tragedy" rel="nofollow noopener">The Maid's Tragedy</a> </i> and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29830368.The_Coxcomb" title="The Coxcomb" rel="nofollow noopener">The Coxcomb</a> </i>, with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5243.John_Fletcher" title="John Fletcher" rel="nofollow noopener">John Fletcher</a> in the 1610s.<br /> <br />Francis Beaumont, a dramatist in the Renaissance theater, most famously collaborated. <br /><br />A justice of the common pleas of Grace Dieu near Thringstone in Leicestershire fathered Beaumont, the son, born born at the family seat. Broadgates hall (now Pembroke College, Oxford) educated him at 13 years of age in 1597. Following the death of his father in 1598, he left university without a degree and entered the Inner Temple in London in 1600 to follow in his footsteps.<br /><br />Beaumont worked not long as a lawyer, accounts suggest. He studied <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22583.Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson" rel="nofollow noopener">Ben Jonson</a>; <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/723544.Michael_Drayton" title="Michael Drayton" rel="nofollow noopener">Michael Drayton</a> and other dramatists also acquainted him, who decided on this passion. He apparently first composed <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Salmacis%20and%20Hermaphroditus" title="Salmacis and Hermaphroditus" rel="nofollow noopener">Salmacis and Hermaphroditus</a> </i> in 1602. The edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica describes as "not on the whole discreditable to a lad of eighteen, fresh from the popular love-poems of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11155.Marlowe" title="Marlowe" rel="nofollow noopener">Marlowe</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/947.Shakespeare" title="Shakespeare" rel="nofollow noopener">Shakespeare</a>, which it naturally exceeds in long-winded and fantastic diffusion of episodes and conceits." <br /><br />In 1605, Beaumont commendatory verses to <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/752868.Volpone" title="Volpone" rel="nofollow noopener">Volpone</a> </i> of Jonson. Collaboration of Beaumont perhaps began early as 1605. <br /><br />They hit an obstacle early in their dramatic careers with notable failures; The children of the Blackfriars in 1607 first performed <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46024745.The_Knight_of_the_Burning_Pestle" title="The Knight of the Burning Pestle" rel="nofollow noopener">The Knight of the Burning Pestle</a> </i> of Beaumont; an audience rejected it, and the epistle of the publisher to the quarto of 1613 claims, failed to note "the privie mark of irony about it;" they took satire of Beaumont as old-fashioned drama. It received a lukewarm reception. In the following year of 1608, <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3182854.Faithful_Shepherdess" title="Faithful Shepherdess" rel="nofollow noopener">Faithful Shepherdess</a> </i> failed on the same stage. <br /><br />In 1609, however, the two collaborated on <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6823632.Philaster" title="Philaster" rel="nofollow noopener">Philaster</a> </i>, which the men of the king performed at the globe theater and at Blackfriars. The popular success launched two careers and sparked a new taste for comedy. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14673858.John_Aubrey" title="John Aubrey" rel="nofollow noopener">John Aubrey</a> related a mid-century anecdote; , they lived in the same house on the Bankside in Southwark, "sharing everything in the closest intimacy." <br /><br />About 1613, Beaumont married <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Ursula%20Isley" title="Ursula Isley" rel="nofollow noopener">Ursula Isley</a>, daughter and co-heiress of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Henry%20Isley" title="Henry Isley" rel="nofollow noopener">Henry Isley</a> of Sundridge in Kent; she bore two daughters, one posthumous. After a stroke between February and October 1613, he ably composed no more than an elegy for Lady <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18815372.Penelope_Clifton" title="Penelope Clifton" rel="nofollow noopener">Penelope Clifton</a>, who died 26 October 1613. <br /><br />People buried his body in Westminster abbey. People celebrated Beaumont during his lifetime and remember him today as a dramatist. <br />

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