John Fletcher (playwright)

John Fletcher (1579-1625) was a Jacobean playwright.

Plays

(An exact chronology or even attribution of the plays is almost impossible. So popular were the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher that joint authorship was claimed for plays written singly or in collaboration with others.)

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Plays Authored Singly

• The Faithful Shepherdess (printed 1610)
• Wit Without Money (printed 1639)
• Valentinian (performed 1610 - 1614)
• The Loyal Subject (acted 1618)
• The Mad Lover (acted 1616)
• The Humorous Lieutenant (acted 1619)
• Women Pleased (performed 1620)
• The Wild Goose Chase (performed 1621)
• The Pilgrim (performed 1621)
• The Island Princess (performed 1621)
• Monsieur Thomas (performed 1619, printed 1639)
• The Woman's Prize (written 1604-1617)
• A Wife for a Month (performed 1624)
• Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (performed 1624)
• The Chances (written 1617).

Collaborations

• Love's Pilgrimage (printed 1647)
• The Double Marriage (with Massinger) (printed 1647)
• Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (with Massinger) (performed 1619)
• The False One (with Massinger) (performed 1620)
• The Little French Lawyer (with Massinger, perhaps with Beaumont) (printed 1647)
• The Custom of the Country (with Massinger) (printed 1647)
• The Laws of Candy (with Massinger and possibly Beaumint) (printed 1647)
• The Spanish Curate (with Massinger) (performed 1622)
• The Beggar's Bush (with Massinger) (performed 1622)
• The Lover's Progress (with Massinger) (performed 1623)
• The Maid in the Mill (with Rowley) (licensed 1623)
• The Night-Walker (with James Shirley) (1633)
• The Elder Brother (with Massinger) (printed 1637)
• The Fair Maid of the Inn (with John Ford, Massinger, and John Webster)
• The Nice Valour (with Thomas Middleton) (printed 1647)
• Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, (with Massinger, Jonson, and George Chapman) (performed 1616)
• The Noble Gentleman (acted 1626)
• The Knight of Malta (with Massinger and Field) (printed 1647)
• The Prophetess (possibly with Massinger) (published 1647)
• Henry VIII (with Shakespeare) (performed 1613)
• Cardenio (with Shakespeare)
• The Two Noble Kinsmen (with Shakespeare) (performed 1613)

Written with Francis Beaumont

• The Woman Hater (performed 1605)
• Cupid's Revenge (performed 1612)
• Philaster (written 1608 - 1609)
• The Maid's Tragedy (written 1610 - 1611)
• Four Plays in One (acted 1608)
• Love's Cure (and with Massinger)
• The Scornful Lady (performed 1610)
• The Knight of the Burning Pestle (performed 1610, published 1613)
• The Coxcomb (performed 1612)
• A King and No King (performed 1611)
• Wits at Several Weapons (1614)
• The Honest Man's Fortune (perhaps with Massinger and Field.) (printed 1647)
• Thierry and Theodoret (and with Massinger)
• The Captain (performed 1612 - 1613)
• Bonduca (performed 1613 - 1614)