John Fletcher

Life

Born: baptised 20 December 1579, Rye, Sussex,

Died: 29 August 1625, Southwark

Biography

John Fletcher was a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivalled Shakespeare's. Though his reputation has been eclipsed since, Fletcher remains an important transitional figure between the Elizabethan popular tradition and the popular drama of the Restoration.

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Settings of text by John Fletcher

• All ye woods (Henry Lahee)
• Better music ne'er was known (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
• Come shepherds, come away (Lord Mornington)
• Come, sleep (Charles Wood)
• Dirge for the faithful lover (Julius Benedict)
• Hence all ye vain delights (Samuel Webbe)
• Invocation to Sleep (Julius Benedict)
• Lay a garland (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
• Lay a garland on my hearse (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
• Old May-day (Julius Benedict)
• Shepherds all, and maidens fair (Walter Cecil Macfarren)
• Song to Pan (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Sweetest melancholy (Walter Cecil Macfarren)
• Take, O take those lips away (Samuel Reay)
• The River-God's song (Ernest John Moeran)
• Weep no more (John Blackwood McEwen)

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