Massinger
Published on 20. June 1991
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-415-03340-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-03340-4 (9780415033404)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Martin Garrett
Content
Introduction; Part 1 Texts; Chapter 1 Nathan Field, Robert Daborne, and Philip Massinger; Chapter 2 John Taylor; Chapter 3 Sir Thomas Jay; Chapter 4 Thomas May; Chapter 5 Philip Massinger; Chapter 6 William Davenant(?); Chapter 7 Philip Massinger; Chapter 8 Sir Henry Herbert; Chapter 9 William Heminge; Chapter 10 Sir Aston Cokaine; Chapter 11 Wit's Recreations; Chapter 12 Abraham Wright; Chapter 13 Philip Kynder; Chapter 14 Samuel Pepys; Chapter 15 Gerard Langbaine; Chapter 16 Anthony Wood; Chapter 17 Nicholas Rowe; Chapter 18 Oliver Goldsmith; Chapter 19 George Colman; Chapter 20 Thomas Davies; Chapter 21 Reviews of The Bondman; Chapter 22 Henry Bate; Chapter 23 Reviews of The Magic Picture; Chapter 24 Richard Cumberland; Chapter 25 Charles Lamb; Chapter 26 William Gifford; Chapter 27 The Edinburgh Review; Chapter 28 William Gifford; Chapter 29 Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Chapter 30 Sir James Bland Burges; Chapter 31 Sir Walter Scott; Chapter 32 The Times; Chapter 33 William Hazlitt; Chapter 34 John Hamilton Reynolds; Chapter 35 Beauties of Massinger; Chapter 36 John Keats; Chapter 37 George Gordon, Lord Byron; Chapter 38 Thomas Campbell; Chapter 39 Thomas Lovell Beddoes; Chapter 40 Richard Lalor Sheil(?); Chapter 41 Henry Neele; Chapter 42 Henry Hallam; Chapter 43 Hartley Coleridge; Chapter 44 The City Madam; Chapter 45 Edwin P.Whipple; Chapter 46 Sir Adolphus William Ward; Chapter 47 Sir Leslie Stephen; Chapter 48 Frances Ann Kemble; Chapter 49 Algernon Charles Swinburne; Chapter 50 James Russell Lowell; Chapter 51 Arthur Symons; Chapter 52 Edmund Gosse;