After 1612 Fletcher continued for 13 years to write plays with unabated energy, display ing even greater versatility of invention and wit than when writing with Beaumont, but becotzt ing more addicted to his mannerisms and more careless of moral decency. About 1613 he seems to have collaborated with Shalcespeare 'Henry VIII' and (The Two Noble ICinsmen,) and the association with the great master brought forth some of his finest passages. He was, indeed, frequently engaged in collaborating with various authors, and especially with Mas singer. 4The Queen of Corinth,' 4The Double Marriage,"The Laws of Candy,' (The Little French Lawyer,' (The False Oned (The Prophetess' and (The Spanish Curate' are some of the plays most certainly to be ascribed to this partnership, and most typical of the two authors. Fletcher, however, did not require collaboration for stimulus. In (Bonduca' he produced one of the most vivid of our his torical tragedies; and in a series of romances and. comedies, of which (The Little French Lawyer,' (The Chances,' 'The Wild Goose Chase' and (The Loyal Subject) are among the best, he gave continued evidence of his ex traordinary fertility both as a playwright and as a poet Most of the characteristics of these later plays may, however, be traced in the period of Fletcher's collaboration with Beaumont; and, though modern criticism has denied to the latter a share in the majority of the plays long pub lished under his name, it is difficult to separate the sentiments and opinions of the two friends or to divide their contribution to the develop ment of the drama.
The following plays were printed separately, many of them several times before 1647, when the first collected edition appeared. The dates are for the first editions. 'The Woman Hater,' 1607; (The Faithful Shepherdess,' 1609; (?) ; (The Knight of the Burning Pestle,' 1613; (Cupid's Revenged 1615; (The Scornful Lady,' 1616; (The Maid's Tragedy,' 1619; (A King and No King,' 1619; (Philasterd 1620; (Thierry and Theodoretd 1621; (The Two Noble Kins men,' 1634; (The Elder Brother,' 1637; (Rollo, or the Bloody Brother,' 1639; (Monsieur Thomas,' 1639; (Wit Without Money,' 1639; (The Coronation,' 1640; (The Night Walker,' 1640; (Rule a Wife and Have a Wifed 1640. In 1647 appeared the first folio entitled, ((Come dies and Tragedies written by Francis Beau mont and John Fletcher,o and containing the following plays °never before printee: (The Mad Lover,' (The Spanish Curate,' (The Lit tle French Lawyer,' (The Custom of the Coun try,' (The Noble Gentleman,' (The Captain,' (The Beggar's Bush,' (The Coxcomb,' 'The False One,' (The Chances,' (The Loyal Sub ject,' (The Laws of Candy,' (The Lovers' Progress,' (The Island Princess,' (The Hu morous Lieutenant,' (The Nice Valour,' 'The Maid in the (The Prophetess,' (The Tragedy of Bonducad (The Sea Voyage,' (The Double Marriage,' (The Pilgrim,' (The Knight of Malta,' (The Woman's Prize,' (Love's Cure,' (The Honest Man's Fortune,' (The Queen of Corinth,' (Woman Pleased,' (A Wife for a Month,' (Wit at Several Weapons,' (The Tragedy of Valentiand (The Fair Maid of the Inn,' (Love's Pilgrimage,' (Four Plays in One," (The Mask of the Inner Temple and Gray's Innd In 1679 appeared the second folio, containing all the plays of the 1647 folio and the 17 previously published and also (The Wild Goose Chase' (4to 1652). 'The Faith
ful Friends' and (Sir John Van Olden Barna vat' remained in manuscript and were not printed until the 19th century. With the ex ception of a few plays already noted as by Beaumont alone, Fletcher seems to have had at least a share in all of these plays and in (Henry VIII.' See DRAMA ; ELIZABETHAN LIT ERATURE - THE DRAMA ; PHILASTER.
Bibliography.—Collective editions of Beau mont and Fletcher were published in 1711; 1750, edited by Theobald, Sewaid and Sym son, 10 vols.; 1778, 10 vols.; 1812, ed. Henry Weber, 14 vols.; 1843-46, ed. Alexander Dyce, 11 vols.; and there have been various reprints of these editions. Dyce's edition has long re mained the standard, and it has hardly been supplanted by the elaborate variortun edition under the editorship of A. R. Waller (1905-10).
The most important of recent cntical dis cussions are (Francis Beaumont, a Critical Study,' by G. C. Macaulay (1883) ; (The In fluence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shalces pear& by A. H. Thorndike (1901) ; (The Chronicle of the English Drama,' by F. G. Fleay (Vol. I, pp. 164-229) ; and articles by Robert Boyle in Englische Studien (1881-87), and by E. F. Oliphant, Englische Studien (1890 92). Separate plays with critical introductions and notes are published in (13elles Lettres Series) (Boston).