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3 unusual facts about John Fletcher


Burton Taylor Studio

Recent notable productions have included a staging of the play The Second Maiden's Tragedy, which Charles Hamilton claimed to be Cardenio, a lost play attributed to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher.

Dorton House, Buckinghamshire

The house was sold in 1783 to Sir John Fletcher and remained in his family till 1928 when it was sold to Major Michael Beaumont.

Fire-Baptized Holiness Church

He was a student of the writings of John Wesley and John Fletcher and eventually joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church.


Madeley Wood Company

The Methodist preacher John Fletcher of Madeley was famous for his millennial prophesies saying 'our earth's the bedlam of the universe, where reason (undiseas'd in heaven) runs mad' ...

Thomas Middleton

Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period.


see also

Afterwardsness

Jean Laplanche: Seduction, Translation, Drives, A dossier compiled by John Fletcher and Martin Stanton, Translations by Martin Stanton, Psychoanalytic Forum, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, 1992.

Alexander Gough

Most notably, Gough wrote an introduction to Humphrey Moseley's 1652 first edition of The Widow; his preface "To the Reader" re-iterated the title-page attribution of that play to John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton.

Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon

The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.

Nocton rail accident

John Fletcher, a 47-year-old delivery driver, was driving a white Mercedes van along the B1188 Sleaford road when he turned off along a disused road near Nocton, Lincolnshire.

Wild-goose chase

The Wild Goose Chase, a comedy stage play written by John Fletcher and first published in 1621