John Fletcher
(Rye, 1579-London, 1625) English playwright.Together with Francis Beaumont, with whom he wrote several collaborative works, he is one of the leading English dramatic authors of the seventeenth century.Notable among his works are The Misogynist (1607), The Disdainful Lady (1616), The Loyal Subject (1618) and The pilgrim (1621).
John Fletcher
Son of an Anglican priest who later became bishop of Bristol and London, John Fletcher studied at Cambridge and was favored by the queen until 1596, when his father fell from grace due to a second marriage.Orphan and almost poor, he devoted himself to the theater and composed from 1606 to 1616 for children's companies, and from this last year for those of the King's Men.He seems to have assigned his work to the businessman Henslowe at first; however, no work is preserved from this period.
On an uncertain date between 1602 and 1607 he struck up a deep friendship with Francis Beaumont, as they both lived in the same house and wrote in collaboration a number of works not determined with exactitude and in which it is very difficult to specify the limits of each one's work.The critics finally pointed out eleven, the best of which are The enemy of women , The knight of the burning pestle , King and not king , The Maiden's Tragedy , Philaster or Wounded Love and possibly Thierry and Theodoret .In them, Beaumont appears as a higher quality and more intensely dramatic poet, while Fletcher is brilliant, lively, and singularly inclined to indulge the easy tastes of the public.
After the death of his friend, John Fletcher apparently wrote no fewer than seventeen works alone, including The Faithful Shepherdess (variation of El faithful shepherd , by Guarini), The loyal subject , Valentiniano and Hunting the wild goose .
In the later years of his life he collaborated with Ben Jonson, William Rowley, Philip Massinger (with whom he composed, among other texts, The Spanish priest and The forest of the beggars ) and also, probably, with Shakespeare, with whom he would have worked in Henry VIII , The two Kinsmen and The history of Cardenio ; This last work, now lost, reflects the fashion of the Spanish drama, to which Fletcher contributed with The Princess of the Island (1619-22) and The Pilgrim (1621) , inspired by The pilgrim in his homeland by Lope de Vega.
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