A New Way to Pay Old Debts
By (Author) Philip Massinger
Edited by T.W. Cruik
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
1st August 2001
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: general
822
Paperback
128
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
176g
New Mermaids are modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of important English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.
Philip Massinger was a Renaissance playwright whose works are remembered for their social and political satire. Born in 1583, it is estimated that he either wrote or collaborated on some 53 plays by the time of his death in 1640. Massinger's works include the romances The Duke of Milan (1620), The Great Duke of Florence (1627), and The Roman Actor (1626), the comedies The City Madam (1632) and The Guardian (1633), and the tragicomedies The Bondman (1623) and The Renegado (1624). He also collaborated on 11 plays with John Fletcher, and may possibly have had a hand in Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen.