Download or read book The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger written by Colin Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-05-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a selection of four plays by Philip Massinger who, from 1625 to 1640, replaced John Fletcher as principal dramatist for the King's Men, the chief London theatre company for more than forty years. The selection consists of two of Massinger's finest comedies, A New Way to Pay Old Debts and The City Madam, and his two best known tragedies, The Duke of Milan and The Roman Actor. These plays have interested readers, scholars and critics for hundreds of years, and although the tragedies have seldom been performed since the seventeenth century, the comedies have a long stage tradition. A New Way to Pay Old Debts has been performed more often than any other play by Shakespeare's contemporaries, and together with The City Madam continues to delight modern audiences.

Download or read book Philip Massinger written by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philip Massinger" by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank is a comprehensive and insightful literary biography that sheds light on the life and works of the renowned English playwright, Philip Massinger. Cruickshank's meticulous research and literary analysis bring to life the creative genius behind Massinger's remarkable plays. This biography offers a captivating glimpse into the literary world of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and the profound impact of Massinger's contributions.

Download or read book Philip Massinger written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Moral Art of Philip Massinger written by Ira Clark and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Moral Art of Philip Massinger views the successor of Shakespeare and Fletcher in a new sociopolitical position: one of accommodation based on a moderate reformation of the tradition of the old hierarchy of inherited degree, patriarchy, and patronage. In addition, author Ira Clark claims a superior aesthetic position for tragicomedy as a sophisticated, elaborate synthesis of dramatic conventions in complex multiple plots filled with reversals, recognitions, miraculous conversations, and reconciliations after clashes of absolutes. The genre's complex testing of characters, discovery of their failures, and reintegration of them into a reformed society focuses central sociopolitical and moral issues for an allegedly decadent but actually deeply troubled society. Finally, the study takes into its account Massinger's many collaborations with John Fletcher, which are generally ignored. In sum, this work attempts to revise obsolete views of the dominant playwright just before the closing of the theaters and the opening of the English Civil War." ""A Case for Massinger" presents a critical history of why Massinger is unappreciated, traces his life with an eye to his ideal of patronage and his emphasis on gratitude, and outlines the rest of the work. "Models for Massinger the Apprentice" focuses on the techniques of tragicomedy as Massinger learned them from his three masters. The Queen of Corinth, written with Fletcher, serves as an exemplum of what this master collaborator taught him about tragicomedy. The City Madam. which obviously alludes to Volpone, serves as an example of the traditions of the estates morality play, satiric style, and metadrama, which Jonson transmitted to Massinger. The Duke of Milan and The Emperor of the East, with motifs borrowed from Othello, serve as exempla of how Massinger used traditional dramatic allusions to present social issues." ""Massinger's Political Plays in their Time" focuses on the sociopolitical inclinations that Massinger consistently presented through his collaborations and solo plays. Primarily the issues revolved around the relative value of court and country, monarchism and parliamentary balance, hereditary degree and social mobility, and conspicuous consumption and martial maintenance. "Massinger's Tragedies and Satiric Tragicomedies in their Social and Family Settings" focuses on the social, family, and personal preferences that Massinger presented in his work: a concerned patriarchy, a greater voice for women, and the rights of inheritance by younger sons. "Massinger's Tragicomedy" circles around to view all of Massinger's artistic and sociopolitical themes by way of readings of a collaborative tragicomedy and a solo tragicomedy: The Elder Brother (with Fletcher) and The Guardian."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On Philip Massinger written by James Phelan and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger written by Joanne Rochester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The playwrights composing for the London stage between 1580 and 1642 repeatedly staged plays-within and other metatheatrical inserts. Such works present fictionalized spectators as well as performers, providing images of the audience-stage interaction within the theatre. They are as much enactments of the interpretive work of a spectator as of acting, and as such they are a potential source of information about early modern conceptions of audiences, spectatorship and perception. This study examines on-stage spectatorship in three plays by Philip Massinger, head playwright for the King's Men from 1625 to 1640. Each play presents a different form of metatheatrical inset, from the plays-within of The Roman Actor (1626), to the masques-within of The City Madam (1632) to the titular miniature portrait of The Picture (1629), moving thematically from spectator interpretations of dramatic performance, the visual spectacle of the masque to staged 'readings' of static visual art. All three forms present a dramatization of the process of examination, and allow an analysis of Massinger's assumptions about interpretation, perception and spectator response.

Download or read book Philip Massinger and John Fletcher a Comparison written by Henri Jacob Makkink and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1927 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger Advertisement to the second edition Introduction Essay on the writings of Massinger by John Ferriar c The virgin martyr The unnatural combat The Duke of Milan written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Edition of Philip Massinger s Duke of Milan written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Believe as You List by Philip Massinger 1631 written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger The bondman The renegade The parliament of love The Roman actor The great Duke of Florence written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger with Notes by W Gifford Third Edition written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger The city madam The guardian A very woman The bashful lover The old law written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plays The maid of honour The picture The Emperor of the East The fatal dowry A new way to pay old debts written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger Adapted for Family Reading and the Use of Young Persons by the Omission of Objectionable Passages Edited by W Harness written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Philip Massinger The Roman actor written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: