"Written in 1609 for Shakespeare's company, Philaster is one of the most ambitious works of literary collaboration ever attempted.

Fully annotated edition of the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays

Reproduction of the original: Philaster by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

A popular and influential play from its first performance in 1611 until the early eighteenth century, 'A King and No King' helped establish tragicomedy as the seventeenth century's favoured dramatic genre, and Beaumont and Fletcher as ...