Who was John Fletcher?
He was a man who walked in the Spirit of God. John Fletcher of Madeley, Shropshire, England, was a saint to whom the rolling drunks in the village, when Fletcher walked by, doffed their hats and muttered, “There goes the man that loves our souls.” Leonard Ravenhill once wrote: “Praying produced Fletcher’s holy living; conversely, Fletcher’s holy living produced prayer.” Besides Christ, Fletcher had two passions in life; prayer and sanctification. He often wrote about sanctification as well as the development of Pentecostal theology. That was the attraction Fletcher saw in the current move of Methodism in England. John Wesley influenced, and was influenced by, the writings of Fletcher concerning perfection through the cleansing of the heart to be made perfect in love. Born at Nyon, Switzerland on September 12, 1729, Fletcher’s original name was Jean Guillaume de la Fletchere. He was educated in Geneva and as a young man he intended to make a life in the army. A series of circumstances c
John Fletcher (1579-1625) was an English playwright who wrote for various acting companiesincluding the Kings Men, the same company for which Shakespeare wrotebetween the early 1600’s (probably beginning between 1604 and 1607) and the year of his death, 1625. He sometimes collaborated with the dramatist Francis Beaumont and other writers, including William Rowley, Nathan Field, Philip Massinger, and, apparently, Shakespeare. He may also have collaborated with Ben Jonson and George Chapman. Fletcher generally focused more on plot twists than character development to generate audience interest. Among the notable plays he wrote without collaboration are The Loyall Subject, The Faithfull Shepheardesse, A Wife for a Moneth, The Chances, The Wild Goose Chase, The Mad Lover, The Humourous Lieutenant, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Women Pleasd, and The Island Princesse. Among the notable plays he wrote with Beaumont are A King and No King, Philaster, and The Maides Tragedy. Fletcher died in Lon
