WRITER

Francis Beaumont

1584 - 1616

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Francis Beaumont ( BOH-mont; 1584 – 6 March 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Beaumont has received more than 170,597 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Francis Beaumont is the 3,816th most popular writer (up from 3,858th in 2019), the 2,724th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,837th in 2019) and the 310th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Rule a wife and have a wife
1640
Plays
1778
The knight of the burning pestle
Theater, English drama, Drama
1613
Philaster
English drama, Early modern and Elizabethan
1622
The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Accessible book, Botany
1866
The works of Beaumont & Fletcher
Accessible book
1812

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Francis Beaumont ranks 3,816 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry Adams, Masha Gessen, Taslima Nasrin, Richard Hammond, Carmen Martín Gaite, and Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah. After him are Siamanto, Maurice Paléologue, Blaga Dimitrova, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Faizi, and Irmgard Keun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1584, Francis Beaumont ranks 17. Before him are Gaspar de Crayer, Hu Zhengyan, Melchior Grodziecki, Herman Wrangel, Caspar Barlaeus, and Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. After him are Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, John Selden, and Thomas van Erpe. Among people deceased in 1616, Francis Beaumont ranks 18. Before him are Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, Johannes Fabricius, Kuzma Minin, Tang Xianzu, Cornelis Ketel, and Matthias de l'Obel. After him are Vitsentzos Kornaros, Richard Hakluyt, and Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Beaumont ranks 2,724 out of 8,785. Before him are John Rutter (1945), Brian Connolly (1945), Tony Atkinson (1944), Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841), Chris Vance (1971), and Richard Hammond (1969). After him are Ida of Bernicia (450), Hayley Mills (1946), Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805), Gary Hocking (1937), Chris Lowe (1959), and Thandie Newton (1972).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Francis Beaumont ranks 310. Before him are Nick Hornby (1957), Mary Renault (1905), Iain Banks (1954), Israel Zangwill (1864), Eric Ambler (1909), and Richard Hammond (1969). After him are Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805), Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915), Minette Walters (1949), William Hazlitt (1778), Arthur Waley (1889), and William Congreve (1670).

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