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Philip Massinger
Massinger, Philip - măsˈənjər, 1583–1640, English dramatist, b. Salisbury. He studied at Oxford (1602–6) but left without a degree, apparently to go to London to write plays. A prolific writer, Massinger wrote more than 40 plays (often in collaboration). He is best known for the comedies A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1625) and The City Madam (1632), in which Read More...
Massinger, Philip - măsˈənjər, 1583–1640, English dramatist, b. Salisbury. He studied at Oxford (1602–6) but left without a degree, apparently to go to London to write plays. A prolific writer, Massinger wrote more than 40 plays (often in collaboration). He is best known for the comedies A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1625) and The City Madam (1632), in which the gluttony of the two central characters leads to tragic consequences. His other extant works, most of which were produced between 1620 and 1630, include the romantic dramas The Duke of Milan and The Great Duke of Florence and the tragicomedies The Fatal Dowry (with Nathaniel Field), The Virgin Martyr (with Thomas Dekker), and The Bondman. A sober, meticulous writer, Massinger was a harsh moralist and frequently employed humor characters to illustrate the evils of a frivolous and avaricious society. See studies by A. H. Cruickshank (1920, repr. 1971), T. A. Dunn (1957), D. Howard (1985), and D. Adler (1987). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved. |
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Martin Garrett's comprehensive collection presents and explains the history of the critical reception to Massinger's work from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. The volume includes extensive selections from the writings of Pepys, Goldsmith, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb and Swinburne, as well as briefer comments from Scott, Byron and Keats. Responses to Massinger's plays from writers as diverse as Boswell, Mrs Thrale, Dickens and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are discussed in Martin Garrett's introduction, which also includes an account of the plays' original political and theatrical context.
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The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists: Excluding Shakespeare (1911) ("A New Way to Pay Old Debts" begins on p. 741 and "Philip Massinger" begins on p. 873)
by William Allan Neilson. 880 pgs.
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama (Chap. XII "John Fletcher and Philip Massinger" and Chap. XIII "Philip Massinger--Nathan Field")
by Frederick S. Boas. 446 pgs.
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Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, A Christian Turned Turk, and the Renegado ("The Renegado" by Philip Massinger begins on p. 39 and p. 241)
by Daniel J. Vitkus. 413 pgs.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman empire posed a clear and present danger to Christian rule in Europe. While English commerce with the Mediterranean world expanded, Ottoman forces invaded Greece, Hungary, and Austria. At the same time, "Turkish" pirates and renegades from North Africa roamed the Atlantic and raided the coast of England. The threat was ideological as well: English sailors captured by Barbary pirates sometimes renounced their faith and converted to Islam. Here, three important early modern "Turk" plays -- Robert Greene's Selimus, Emperor of the Turks (1594); Robert Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk (1612); and Philip Massinger's The Renegado (1623) -- are available for the first time. These texts represent Islamic power and wealth in scenes of piracy on the high seas, on-stage execution by strangulation, and rites of religious conversion. The plays are set in historical and cultural context by Daniel J. Vitkus's clear and thoughtful introduction. These carefully edited, annotated, modern-spelling editions are particularly valuable for understanding the cultural production of English identity in relation to the Islamic Other.
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Shakespeare's Contemporaries: Modern Studies in English Renaissance Drama ("Philip Massinger: Social Morality in A New Way to Pay Old Debts" begins on p. 273)
by Max Bluestone, Norman Rabkin. 300 pgs.
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A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, Vol. III (1899) (Chap. VIII "The End of the Old Drama")
by Adolphus William Ward. 604 pgs.
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Elizabethan Playwrights: A Short History of the English Drama from Medieval Times to the Closing of the Theatres in 1642 (1925) (Discussion of Philip Massinger begins on p. 256)
by Felix E. Schelling. 340 pgs.
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English Tragicomedy: Its Origin and History (1910) (Chap. V "The Hey Day of English Tragicomedy (1610 to 1642)")
by Frank Humphrey Ristine. 247 pgs.
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Poetic Drama: An Anthology of Plays in Verse from the Ancient Greek to the Modern American ("Preface to A New Way to Pay New Debts" begins on p. 340)
by Alfred Kreymborg. 858 pgs.
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The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon ("The Power of Integrity in Massinger's Women" begins on p. 63)
by Anne M. Haselkorn, Betty S. Travitsky. 366 pgs.
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A Literary History of England ("Caroline Drama, 1625-1642" begins on p. 578)
by Albert C. Baugh. 1678 pgs.
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Representative English Comedies, Vol. III: The Later Contemporary of Shakespeare: Fletcher and Others (1913) (Chap. V "Philip Massinger: Critical Essay")
by Charles Mills Gayley. 664 pgs.
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