Assessment
Taken together, the folios contain two works that are generally thought to be the work of Beaumont alone – The Knight of the Burning Pestle and The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn – and fifteen that are solo efforts by Fletcher, and perhaps a dozen that are actual Beaumont/Fletcher collaborations. The rest are Fletcher's collaborations with Massinger and other writers.
Neither folio is perfect in its inclusions; the first contains The Laws of Candy, which is in all likelihood a play by John Ford, and the second has The Coronation, a play by James Shirley. Two Fletcher/Massinger collaborations were left out of both collections: A Very Woman was printed in a volume of Massinger's plays in 1655, while Sir John van Olden Barnavelt remained in manuscript until the 19th century.
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