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Philip Massinger

  

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Philip Massinger : The Very Woman

Masenger - Believe ye are to blame, much to blame Lady; [...] That Feel a Weight of Sorrow through their Souls.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : Bashful Lover, The

'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : Picture, The

' ... a short extract from [Philip] Massinger's The Picture (III.v.211-19) [was] copied by D[orothy] W[ordsworth] into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ... '

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : The Duke of Milan

Mary Berry, Journal, 3 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt read to us one of Massinger's plays ("The Duke of Milan").'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John B. S. Morritt      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : The Duke of Milan

Mary Berry, Journal, 5 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt continued reading the "Duke of Milan." He reads very well, and Massinger is not easy to read.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John B. S. Morritt      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : The Fatal Dowry

Mary Berry, Journal, 6 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt began reading another of Massinger's plays [having finished "The Duke of Milan"], the "Fatal Dowry," from which Rowe has taken the story of "The Fair Penitent." The characters of the father and the husband in "The Fatal Dowry" are more interesting than in "The Fair Penitent;" but the events and catastrophes are badly drawn, and the wife detestable.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John B. S. Morritt      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : The Plays of Philip Massinger... with notes critic

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : The Bondman

'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good play.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : [unknown]

'read Massinger'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : [unknown]

'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : Lovers' Progress, The

'Walk up the Mountain with S. - he reads aloud Lovers Progress'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end italics] [...] and how it has been declared that no theatre can exist at the present day without a saloon -- & how, if it could, the effect wd be to force vicious persons & their indecencies into full view in the boxes --!! Now this appears to me enough to constitute a repulsive objection! & I who have read hard at the old dramatists since I last spoke to you about them, -- Beaumont & Fletcher Massinger Ben Jonson all Dodsley's collection, -- can yet see that objection in all its repulsiveness! .. & read on!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Philip Massinger : Fatal Dowry, The

'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tory, & glories in it. he should have been more sparing of Praise to the Fair Penitent I think, because the Characters are from Massinger - I care not how much good is said of the language; but Old Phil: has the Merit of that Contrast, more happy perhaps than any on our Stage, of the Gay Rake, and the virtuous dependent Gentleman'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

  

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