"The Custom of the Country" from Francis Beaumont. Dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre (1584-1616).
"The Custom of the Country" from John Fletcher. Jacobean playwright (1579-1625).
The Custom of the Country is a Jacobean stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, originally published in 1647 in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio. John Dryden referred to the play in his Essay of Dramatick Poesie; he is concerned to defend...
"The Custom of the Country" from Francis Beaumont. Dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre (1584-1616).
Once famed for its obscenity, this vigorous and enjoyable play traces the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land. By turns poignant and risqu , sentimental and satiraical, its beautifully crafted plot embodies the collaborative art of its authors. It was given...