Philaster

bsp; I'le go no further than your eye, or lip,
There's theme enough for one man for an age.

Meg. Sir, they stand right, and my lips are yet even,
Smooth, young enough, ripe enough, red enough,
Or my glass wrongs me.

Pha. O they are two twin'd Cherries died in blushes,
                Which those fair suns above, with their bright beams
                Reflect upon, and ripen: sweetest beauty,
                Bow down those branches, that the longing taste,
                Of the faint looker on, may meet those blessings,
                And taste and live.

Meg. O delicate sweet Prince;
                She that hath snow enough about her heart,
                To take the wanton spring of ten such lines off,
                May be a Nun without probation.
                Sir, you have in such neat poetry, ga

This Beaumont and Fletcher collaboration starts out great and ends up rather disappointing. Whether this is due to the division between the playwrights - if, say, Beaumont wrote the beginning and Fletcher the end, or vice versa - I don't know and I'll resist looking it up until after I've finished w

must a play be good? can it not simply be bisexual and transgender and unhinged?

A fascinating book: in so many ways like Cymbeline (the introduction makes it clear there is a connection between the two, but no one can quite tell which influenced the other), with smatterings of Hamlet and Henry IV part one, as well as some rampant renaissance misogyny and a bizarre gender-twist

Felt a little long, but beautifully written & so enjoyable to read

crazy ass play. presents gender as an unfixed, and unstable, category. and has the first instance of female crossdressing I've come across in a Renaissance play where no one (not even the audience) knows it's occurring. ideas about 'foreignness' and travel are interesting through the lens of Renaiss

Read as part of the Shakespeare Institute "Extra Mile" online readathon in the lockdown summer of 2020

Beaumont and Fletcher in all probability, and part of the repertoire of the King's Men (Shakespeare's company) at the Globe and Blackfriars Theatre around 1609. A bonkers play with lots of the class

dissappointed after the island princess and the tamer tamed but still v obsessed with fletcher

One scene in each act. Not a bad story, pretty entertaining.

**spoiler alert**
Prince Pharamond is literally found sleeping with Megra and everyone just forgives and forgets, but Megra makes up a lie that Arethusa slept with Bellario and it's instantly the scandal of the century.

Worth checking out if you're interested in Jacobean tragicomedy. This play of jealousy and deception has some great characters. I especially liked Megara and Galatea as to women with completely opposite sensibilities. While the plot may become ridiculous at point, it is rarely boring. It should be n

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Philaster

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

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