The Plays of Philip Massinger, Vol. I
Philip Massinger · 1868
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Description
Philip Massinger, who succeeded Fletcher as the King's Men's house playwright, is gathered here in Volume One of the Cunningham edition of his plays. Peter Cunningham revised the old Gifford edition for Victorian readers. Massinger had written for the London stage until 1640.
His plays mix romance, politics, and sharp questions about wealth and power in a polished, stately verse. Massinger handled crowds, courts, and conspiracies with a craftsman's ease. He was censored in his own day for touches too close to living politics. This first volume opens the collected plays through which the nineteenth century judged him, a dramatist of dignity between Fletcher and the closing of the theatres.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Philip Massinger |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1868 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 515007 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Project Gutenberg License |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |