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
'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
' ... 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
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
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
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
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'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
'read Massinger'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Walk up the Mountain with S. - he reads aloud Lovers Progress'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
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
'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
