English playwright of the Jacobean era who famously collaborated with Francis Beaumont, Philip Massinger, and other significant contemporaries, Fletcher also worked with Shakespeare on Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) and Henry VIII (1613?). Fletcher is revered as one of the most influential and prolific dramatists of his time, his fame rivalling that of Shakespeare during their lives. Fletcher succeeded Shakespeare as the primary house playwright for the acting company the King's Men (known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men prior to 1603) following Shakespeare's death in 1616. Fletcher's major works include The Faithfull Shepheardesse (c. 1608-1609), The Loyall Subject (1618), The Chances (1617?), Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (1624), Philaster (with Beaumont, c. 1608–10), The Maides Tragedy (with Beaumont, c. 1608–11), A King and No King (with Beaumont, 1611), and The False One (with Massinger, 1620).