Beaumont and Fletcher were the English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, who collaborated in their writing during the reign of James I. It is still uncertain how many plays were their joint work. In box office terms, they were very popular, and no effort was made at the time to keep straight who had written what. In old editions, as many as 70 plays were attributed to them, in default of more accurate information; more secure scholarship has cut that number down (dramatically, one might say) to a corpus of about 20 plays which are the work of one or both. See the individual pages on Beaumont and Fletcher for more details.
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