The future Francis Beaumont

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This essay attends to Beaumont’s recent performance and reception history, documenting a range of academic and popular responses to demonstrate the challenges and affordances of engaging with Beaumont’s plays. The first section examines several twenty-first century performances of Beaumont plays, focusing especially on the Globe’s stimulating production of The Knight of the Burning Pestle. The second section considers how Beaumont was both acknowledged and ignored in 2016, the year of his 400th anniversary. The final section suggests some avenues for further research into the performance of Beaumont’s plays.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)201-222
Number of pages22
JournalEarly Theatre
Volume20
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2018

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Beaumont
  • Fletcher
  • performance history
  • reception history

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