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    Philip Massinger (1583 – 17 March 1640) was an English dramatist. His finely plotted plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam, and The...
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  • Massinger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Philip Massinger (1583–1640), English dramatist William Massinger (1514/15–1593/94), English...
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    Penitent itself was an adaptation of The Fatal Dowry (1632), a play by Philip Massinger and Nathan Field. The name Lothario was previously used for a somewhat...
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    Fletcher collaborated in writing plays, chiefly with Francis Beaumont or Philip Massinger, but also with Shakespeare and others. Although his reputation has...
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  • organisations, and is the opposite of a whitelist. The English dramatist Philip Massinger used the phrase "black list" in his 1639 tragedy The Unnatural Combat...
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  • known as The Bloody Brother) (?1616–30?) – John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman (The drinking song) 1617 Warenar (play) by Pieter Corneliszoon...
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  • Ben Jonson II • Ben Jonson III • Christopher Marlowe • Philip Massinger I • Philip Massinger II • Thomas Middleton I • Thomas Middleton II • Nero and...
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    17th-century tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, as well as Anthony Trollope's 1882 dystopian novel The Fixed Period...
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    like George Peele and Robert Greene, and later ones like Brome and Philip Massinger, are marked by financial uncertainty, struggle and poverty. Playwrights...
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    elaborate, artificial rhetoric. Some of Fletcher's contemporaries, notably Philip Massinger and James Shirley, wrote popular tragicomedies. Richard Brome also...
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  • the GoBots The Guardian (play), a 1633 Caroline era stage play by Philip Massinger The Guardian (sculpture), a 1995 public artwork by artist Ante Buljan...
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    A New Way to Pay Old Debts (category Plays by Philip Massinger)
    printed 1633) is an English Renaissance drama, the most popular play by Philip Massinger. Its central character, Sir Giles Over-reach, became one of the more...
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  • The Sea Voyage (category Plays by Philip Massinger)
    Sea Voyage is a late Jacobean comedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. The play is notable for its imitation of Shakespeare's The Tempest...
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    17th-century play Rollo Duke of Normandy, written by John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman. A character, broadly inspired by the...
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  • The Spanish Curate (category Plays by Philip Massinger)
    late Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. It premiered on the stage in 1622, and was first published in 1647...
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  • two parts in The Egoist, is a part of The Sacred Wood. The essay "Philip Massinger" contains the famous line (often misquoted) "Immature poets imitate...
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    The Roman Actor (category Plays by Philip Massinger)
    The Roman Actor is a Caroline era stage play, a tragedy written by Philip Massinger. It was first performed in 1626, and first published in 1629. A number...
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  • A Very Woman (category Plays by Philip Massinger)
    an early seventeenth-century stage play, a tragicomedy written by Philip Massinger and John Fletcher. It was first published in 1655, fifteen and thirty...
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  • The Duke of Milan (category Plays by Philip Massinger)
    written by Philip Massinger. First published in 1623, the play is generally considered among the author's finest achievements in drama. Massinger's play was...
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    Day and John Webster) and slightly younger writers (John Ford and Philip Massinger). Among these plays is one, Keep the Widow Waking (1624, with Ford...
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  • "rabbit", rather as pussy is connected to the same term for a cat. (Philip Massinger (1583–1640): "A pox upon your Christian cockatrices! They cry, like...
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    latter with Fletcher and Philip Massinger). In 1613, Rosseter combined his company with the Lady Elizabeth's Men, managed by Philip Henslowe. Performing at...
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  • Rollo Duke of Normandy (category Plays by Philip Massinger)
    Bloody Brother, is a play written in collaboration by John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson and George Chapman. The title character is the historical...
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    and the plays he composed with various other collaborators including Philip Massinger and Nathan Field. The first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647 contained...
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    de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, French soldier (b. 1590) March 17 – Philip Massinger, English dramatist (b. 1583) March 20 – Michael Reyniersz Pauw, Dutch...
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  • The Double Marriage (category Plays by Philip Massinger)
    a Jacobean era stage play, a tragedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, and initially printed in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of...
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  • Love's Cure (category Plays by Philip Massinger)
    critics assigned the authorship of the play to Beaumont and Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, James...
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    in The Beggars' Bush, a play by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, first performed in 1622, but possibly written c. 1614. The play remained...
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  • Traverse Theatre Company, Edinburgh 1982–83 The Roman Actor Paris Philip Massinger Philip Prowse Glasgow Citizens Theatre Company Red Roses for Me Brennan...
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    English play The Custom of the Country, written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger and published in 1647. The play has the classic version of the "right...
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