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Philip Massinger (1) (1583–1640)

Auteur de A New Way to Pay Old Debts

Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Philip Massinger, voyez la page de désambigüisation.

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Massinger is a prolific dramatist who wrote, or had a hand in, more than 50 plays. His specialty was tragicomedy, in which he imitated John Fletcher. His best-known play is "A New Way to Pay Old Debts" (1621), based on Middleton's "A Trick to Catch the Old One." Sir Giles Overreach reflects the afficher plus historical Sir Giles Mompesson, a notorious capitalist and extortionist, who was tried in 1621. There is a good deal of snobbery in Massinger's play, and the class hatred of Sir Giles is frenzied and passionate. "A New Way to Pay Old Debts" has had an active theatrical history from its own day to the present, especially as a vehicle for the grandly histrionic role of Overreach. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Philip Massinger (1583–1640). 1750 engraving by Charles Grignion. Wikimedia Commons.

Œuvres de Philip Massinger

A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1949) 74 exemplaires
The Roman Actor (2002) 33 exemplaires
The city madam (1963) 31 exemplaires
The Renegado (2010) 30 exemplaires
The Plays of Philip Massinger (1857) 29 exemplaires
Philip Massinger (1887) 28 exemplaires
Believe As You List (1970) 13 exemplaires
The fatal dowry (1969) 8 exemplaires
The dramatic works in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon (1976) — Auteur — 8 exemplaires
The bondman : an antient storie (2015) 7 exemplaires
Beggars Bush (2015) 5 exemplaires
The False One A Tragedy (2008) 4 exemplaires
The virgin-martyr 3 exemplaires
The emperor of the east (2018) 2 exemplaires
The Unnatural Combat (2018) 2 exemplaires
The parliament of love 2 exemplaires
Philip Massinger Vol. 2 (1889) 2 exemplaires
The Duke of Milan (2009) 2 exemplaires
The Dramatic Works 1 exemplaire
The bashful lover (2018) 1 exemplaire
The picture (2018) 1 exemplaire
The Spanish Curate — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
The Sea Voyage 1 exemplaire
The guardian (2018) 1 exemplaire

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English Renaissance Drama (2002) — Contributeur — 224 exemplaires
Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays (1777) — Contributeur, quelques éditions171 exemplaires
Six plays by contemporaries of Shakespeare (1915) — Contributeur — 69 exemplaires
Four Jacobean City Plays (Penguin Classics) (1797) — Contributeur — 63 exemplaires
The chief Elizabethan dramatists, excluding Shakespeare (1911) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
Five Stuart tragedies (1959) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
The Old Law, or, A New Way to Please You (1982) — mis-attributed author, quelques éditions16 exemplaires
Routledge Anthology Early Modern Drama (2020) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Early English poetry, ballads, and popular literature of the Middle ages — Contributeur, quelques éditions1 exemplaire

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I read this after seeing it linked to the story of Beatrice Cenci, but while there are common elements (filicide and father-daughter incest), a lot of other stuff goes on, too, and Massinger's Malefort is quite a different character to Cenci (at least as Shelley paints him): he doesn't have his son killed, but slays him with his own hand; and far from raping his daughter, he struggles with the affection he feels for her and battles heroically to resist it - he is more of a man and less of a pantomime villain. Conversely, Theocrine, compared to Beatrice, is less heroic avenger, more dopily faithful daughter. But this aspect of the play is pretty sketchy until the fourth act - before then, there's a piratical dispute that I couldn't follow, various confused and obfuscated motives, and some weird comic business with a character who eats too much at banquets and is persuaded to turn up for one in a suit of armour or something? I wasn't paying attention, it seemed pretty tedious. It's the first Massinger play I've read so don't know if it isn't that good, or if I'm misjudging it because I expected (or wanted) something more monothematic, or if I was simply tired. Anyway I liked it more by the end, when the theme I came for falls more sharply into focus - the big scenes are V.ii (rape, madness, death by weather) and IV.i, where Malefort almost looks like a precursor to Peter Lorre in M.… (plus d'informations)
 
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stilton | Jan 7, 2016 |
To me, the least successful of this series of revivals.
I simply did not care about the tragic fate of the characters.
 
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antiquary | Aug 28, 2007 |

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