Birth date: 
1584
Death date: 
6 March 1616
Birth town: 
Country: 
Leicestershire

Francis Beaumont was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.

Beaumont was the son of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace Dieu, near Thringstone in Leicestershire, a justice of the common pleas. He was born at the family seat and was educated at Broadgates Hall (now Pembroke College, Oxford) at age thirteen. Following the death of his father in 1598, he left university without a degree and followed in his father's footsteps by entering the Inner Temple in London in 1600.

Accounts suggest that Beaumont did not work long as a lawyer. He became a student of poet and playwright Ben Jonson ; he was also acquainted with Micheal Drayton and other poets and dramatists, and decided that was where his passion lay. His first work, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, appeared in 1602. The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica describes the work as "not on the whole discreditable to a lad of eighteen, fresh from the popular love-poems of

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A Funeral Elegy on the Death of The Lady Penelope Clifton 30 July 2013
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A Sonnet 3 June 2013
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Ad Comitissam Rutlandia 31 July 2013
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An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland 31 July 2013
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An Elegy on the Lady Markham 31 July 2013
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Aspatia's Song 29 November 2013
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Better music ne'er was known 29 November 2013
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Bridal Song 29 November 2013
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Come, sleep 29 November 2013
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Come, You Whose Loves Are Dead 29 November 2013
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