Philip Massinger (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Philip Massinger wrote a few commemorative poems, commendations of other playwrights, and dedicatory epistles in verse and prose. These have been collected by Donald Lawless in a 1968 monograph, The Poems of Philip Massinger with Critical Notes. Massinger’s reputation, however, rests firmly on his plays.
Achievements
Philip Massinger’s missing plays are the stuff of legend: An eighteenth century book dealer, Joseph Warburton, bought and stacked away in a closet an undetermined number of Massinger manuscripts, which his cook...
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