Search results
19 de may. de 2024 · The Spanish Curate is a late Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. It premiered on the stage in 1622, and was first published in 1647 . Date and source. The play was licensed for production by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, on 24 October 1622.
20 de may. de 2024 · The Virgin Martyr is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragedy written by Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger, and first published in 1622. It constitutes a rare instance in Massinger's canon in which he collaborated with a member of the previous generation of English Renaissance dramatists – those who began their careers in the 1590s ...
Hace 6 días · Its strength lies in English books, especially English drama of the 17th and 18th centuries. There are over plays including works by Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, and William Wycherley.
Hace 4 días · Meyler asks why Philip Massinger’s play The Bondman, a play about slave rebellion, appealed across the spectrum of 17th-century political society, from royalists to republicans, whereas Nyquist looks at the history of slavery in literature across the period, concluding with an analysis of Shakespeare’s deployment of war slavery ...
Hace 6 días · Eliot in his ruthlessly efficient dissection in relation to the work of the 17thc playwright, Philip Massinger2, describes it as “the transformation of a personality into a personal work of art” which seems good; adding “their lifetime’s work, long or short” - an elegant exemplification of the artist's natural inhabiting of ...
21 de may. de 2024 · Critics generally agree that the hands of Fletcher and Philip Massinger are manifest in the text, but they dispute the presence of Francis Beaumont. Cyrus Hoy, in his wide-ranging survey of authorship problems in Fletcher's canon, judged all three dramatists to have contributed to the play, and produced this breakdown among them:
23 de may. de 2024 · Thomas Kyd, another major rival, wrote grisly tragedies which drew in large crowds, thanks to the ample violence and bloodshed involved. One of the most popular of Shakespeare's contemporaries was Philip Massinger, a playwright who excelled at satire and political commentary.
