Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. CHAPTER ONE. The Country, the Playhouse, and the Mermaid: The Three Worlds of Beaumont and Fletcher 8
6. CHAPTER TWO. Beaumont and Fletcher's Earliest Work 56
7. CHAPTER THREE. Form and Politics in The Knight of the Burning Pestle 81
8. CHAPTER FOUR. The Faithful Shepherdess: The Politics of Chastity 101
9. CHAPTER FIVE. The Scornful Lady and "City Comedy" 115
10. CHAPTER SIX. Cupid's Revenge: Purity and Princes 128
11. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Contemporary "Application" of The Noble Gentleman 136
12. CHAPTER EIGHT. Philaster, or Love lies a Bleeding: The Anti-Prince 146
13. Chapter Nine. A KING AND NO KING: THE CORRUPTION OF POWER 167
14. Chapter Ten. THE MAID’S TRAGEDY: HONORABLE TYRANNICIDE 183
15. Chapter Eleven. FLETCHER’S POLITICS AFTER BEAUMONT 212
16. Afterword. THE KING’S MEN AND THE POLITICS OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER 245
17. Appendix A. THE DATE OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER’S THE NOBLE GENTLEMAN: CA. 1611 249
18. Appendix B. THE EVIDENCE FOR BEAUMONT'S STROKE: THOMAS PESTELL’S ELEGY 255
19. INDEX 259