Philip Massinger

Philip Massinger, spr. mässindscher, (* 1583 or November 24, 1584 in Wilton or Salisbury, Wiltshire, † March 17, 1638 in London ) was an English playwright.

Life

Philip Massinger was a son of Arthur Massinger court officials (1550-1603) and his wife Anne Crompton. To 1602 he became a student in St. Alban 's Hall at the University of Oxford and converted there under the influence of his teachers to Catholicism.

1606 Massinger finished his studies and settled in London as a writer down. There he joined John Fletcher, with whom he worked for some time. His first own stage play The virgin martyr wrote in his first time in London, but could not until over 15 years later publish.

Ben Jonson and Francis Beaumont were sponsors such as role models for Massinger. William Shakespeare, too, was well known to him, if they had known personally, is debatable.

At the age of 53 years Philip Massinger died on March 17, 1638 in London.

Reception

Massinger was a typical representative of the courtly- aristocratic theater piece. Contemporaries attracted Massinger often before the works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.

One focus in the works was the pre-eminent position of the Catholic Church; associated with it were sometimes social issues, but these were only identified and not resolved.

Works (selection)

• The renegado ( 1624)
• The Roman Mime ( "The romantic actor" ), 1629
• The maid of honor ( 1622, with Francis Beaumont )
• The virgin martyr ( 1622)
• The Duke of Milan ( " The Duke of Milan " ), 1623
• Unnatural combat,
• The unfortunate dowry ( "Fatal Dowry " ), 1619
• The bondman,
• The Grand Duke of Florence ( "The Great Duke of Florence " ), 1630
• Citizens woman as Dame ( " The city madam " ), 1632
• A new way to pay old debts ("A new way to pay old debts" ), 1633
• Believe as ye list ( 1631)
• Beggars bush (along with Francis Beaumont )
• The custom of the country (along with John Fletcher )
• Together with Thomas Middleton, William Rowley: The Old Law 1656 ( posthumously )

Literature (selection )

• Francis Cunningham (ed.): William Gifford: The plays of Philip Massinger; From the text of William Gifford. With the addition of the tragedy " Believe as you list" ed by Francis Cunningham. London: Chatto and Windus, about 1887.
• Ian Fletcher: Beaumont and Fletcher. Longmans Green, London 1967.
• Martin Garrett: Philip Massinger 's attitude to spectacle ( Jacobean drama studies; 72). University, Salzburg 1984.
• Martin Garrett (ed.): Massinger: the critical heritage. London [ ua]: Routledge, 1991, ISBN 0-415-03340-3. .
• Colin Gibson ( ed.): The selected plays of Philip Massinger: The Duke of Milan; The Roman actor; A new way to pay old debts; The city madam. ( Plays by Renaissance and Restoration dramatists ). Cambridge [ et al ]: Cambridge Univ. Pr, 1978 ISBN 0-521-21728-8; . ISBN 0-521-29243-3.
• Cyrus Hoy: The Shares of Fletcher and His Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Studies in Bibliography, 1956-62.
• Naomi Conn Liebler: Philip Massinger 's The Roman actor and the idea of the play within a play. Stony Brook, State Univ. of New York, Diss, 1976.
• Terence P. Logan: Philip Massinger. In: Terence P. Logan, Denzell S. Smith, eds, The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: . A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1978.
• Alfred Jean- François Mézières: Contemporains successeurs et de Shakespeare. 5th rev. and corr. Ed Paris: Hachette, 1913.
• James Phelan: On Philip Massinger. ( in Volume 2 of the journal Anglia: Journal of English Philology, Halle Leipzig 1879: .. . Univ, Diss, 1878)
• Irmgard reeds: The ideal image of women in Philip Massinger. Munich: Piloty & Loehle, 1920.
• Samuel A. and Dorothy R. Tannenbaum: Philip Massinger. Michel de Montaigne. Anthony Mundy. Thomas Nashe. George Peele. Thomas Randolph. ( Elizabethan bibliographies, Vol 6). Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1967.