Delphi Complete Works of Philip Massinger (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Philip Massinger (Illustrated)
Author: Philip Massinger
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 4600
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1913487202
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The English Jacobean and Caroline playwright, Philip Massinger was celebrated for his comedic genius, finely plotted plays, social realism and incisive satire. Following the death of Shakespeare in 1616 and Fletcher in 1625, Massinger became the leading playwright of the King's Men's. His most popular and influential play, ‘A New Way to Pay Old Debts’ expresses a timeless indignation at economic oppression and social disorder, while ‘The City Madam’ deals with similar evils, combining naturalistic and symbolic modes. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Massinger’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare plays and poetry, concise introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Massinger’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * All 38 plays, with individual contents tables * Features many rare plays appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Includes Nicholas Rowe’s ‘The Fair Penitent’, the 1632 adaptation of Massinger’s ‘The Fatal Dowry’ * Excellent formatting of the plays * Useful Glossary of Jacobean Language * Massinger’s rare poetry, available in no other collection * Easily locate the poems and scenes you want to read * Features two biographies, including Cruickshank’s seminal study – explore Massinger’s intriguing life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse our range of Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights CONTENTS: The Solo Plays The Maid of Honour (c. 1621) The Duke of Milan (c. 1621) The Unnatural Combat (c. 1621) The Bondman (1623) The Renegado (1624) The Parliament of Love (1624) A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1625) The Roman Actor (1626) The Great Duke of Florence (1627) The Picture (1629) The Emperor of the East (1631) Believe as You List (c. 1631) The City Madam (1632) The Guardian (1633) The Bashful Lover (1636) Collaborations with John Fletcher Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (1619) The Little French Lawyer (c. 1619) A Very Woman (c. 1620) The Custom of the Country (c. 1620) The Double Marriage (c. 1620) The False One (c. 1620) The Prophetess (1622) The Sea Voyage (1622) The Spanish Curate (1622) The Lovers’ Progress; or, The Wandering Lovers (1623) The Elder Brother (c. 1625) Collaborations with John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont Thierry and Theodoret (c. 1607) The Coxcomb (1608) Beggars’ Bush (c. 1612) Love’s Cure (c. 1612) Collaborations with John Fletcher and Nathan Field The Honest Man’s Fortune (1613) The Queen of Corinth (c. 1616) The Knight of Malta (c. 1619) Collaboration with Nathan Field The Fatal Dowry (c. 1619) The Fair Penitent (1632) by Nicholas Rowe Collaboration with John Fletcher, John Ford, and William Rowley/John Webster The Fair Maid of the Inn (1626) Collaboration with John Fletcher, Ben Jonson and George Chapman Rollo Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother (c. 1616) Collaboration with Thomas Dekker The Virgin Martyr (1620) Collaboration with Thomas Middleton and William Rowley The Old Law (c. 1615) The Poetry Miscellaneous Poems The Biographies Life of Massinger (1830) Philip Massinger (1920) by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank Glossary of Jacobean Language Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

The Moral Art of Philip Massinger

The Moral Art of Philip Massinger
Author: Ira Clark
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1993
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780838752258
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"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

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion
Author: Andrew Hiscock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191653438
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This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early-modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections. The first analyses the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton. Since authors never write in isolation, the fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith: lay and religious households, sectarian groups including the Quakers, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and those who settled in the new world. Finally, the fifth section considers some key topics and debates in early modern religious literature, ranging from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgment, and eternity. The Handbook is framed by a succinct introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early modern English literature and religion.