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The end of the old drama. Philip Massinger (1583-1640) ; Nathaniel Field (1587-1633) ; John Webster (died c1630) ; Cyril Tourneur (fl. 1603-c1613) ; John Ford (1586-c1640 or post) ; James Shirley (1596-1666) ; Minor dramatists of this period ; Dramatists who wrote both before and after the Civil War and Commonwealth periods ; Academical plays ; Masque-writers of the reigns of James I and Charles I ; Historical review of the period from Shakspere to the Civil War ; The stage under James I and Charles I ; Summary of the literary history of the drama in this period ; Summary of the achievements of our dramatic literature in this period

Sir Adolphus William Ward

Published: 1899

Total Pages: 624


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Martin Garrett's comprehensive collection presents and explains the history of the critical reception to Massinger's work from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. The volume includes extensive selections from the writings of Pepys, Goldsmith, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb and Swinburne, as well as briefer comments from Scott, Byron and Keats. Responses to Massinger's plays from writers as diverse as Boswell, Mrs Thrale, Dickens and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are discussed in Martin Garrett's introduction, which also includes an account of the plays' original political and theatrical context.
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