Definition of Francis Beaumont

1. Noun. English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616).

Exact synonyms: Beaumont
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright

Lexicographical Neighbors of Francis Beaumont

Frances Wright
Francesca
Franceschetti
Franceschetti's syndrome
Francesco Petrarca
Franche-Comte
Franche-Comté
Francia
Francic
Francie
Francis
Francis Albert Sinatra
Francis Aston
Francis Bacon
Francis Beaumont (current term)
Francis Crick
Francis Drake
Francis Edgar Stanley
Francis Everett Townsend
Francis Ferdinand
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Galton
Francis Henry Compton Crick
Francis Hopkinson
Francis II
Francis Joseph
Francis Joseph I
Francis Peyton Rous
Francis Poulenc

Literary usage of Francis Beaumont

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1895)
"Francis Beaumont was five years younger than Fletcher, and was the third son of Sir Francis Beaumont, of Grace- Dieu, Leicester, Justice of the Common Pleas ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Francis Beaumont 11584-16161 184 ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY MORTALITY, behold and fear What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones ..."

3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"It will be observed, from the title-page of the edition of 1602, that the name of Francis Beaumont no where appears in connexion with it; and, without going ..."

4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1847)
"It will be observed, from the title-page of the edition of 1602, that the name of Francis Beaumont no where appears in connexion with it; and, without going ..."

5. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"Francis Beaumont P. 174. The difference between the poems of Beaumont and those of Fletcher shows two strongly opposed types of mind: Fletcher, musical, ..."

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