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The Dearth of the Author: Philip Massinger and the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio
Eoin Price 
The Review of English Studies, Volume: 74, Issue: 313, Pages: 78 - 94
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In 1647, Humphrey Moseley and Humphrey Robinson published a folio collection of unpublished works which they attributed to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, two writers famous for their collaborations from 1606 to 1613. But in affording Beaumont a place on the title page, the publishers misattribu...
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