“It is now public, to satisfy the importunity of friends: I will only add, it is like to be the last, for in my resolve, nothing of this nature shall, after this, engage either my pen or invention.”

Announcing the end of his career as a dramatist · Note to the candid reader, Honoria and Mammon (1659)

• Resolution
• Theatre
• Writing

“Poetry is the child of nature, which, regulated and made beautiful by art, presenteth the most harmonious of all other compositions; among which (if we rightly consider) the dramatical is the most absolute.”

Elevating drama as the highest form of poetry when nature is ordered by art · Preface to the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio (1647)

• Art
• Drama
• Poetry