Author:Philip Massinger

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Philip Massinger (1583–1640)

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English dramatist; his finely plotted plays are noted for their satire and realism, and their political and social themes

Philip Massinger

Works

Plays

• The Duke of Milan (1623)
• The Unnatural Combat (1639)
• The Bondman (1624)
• The Renegado (1630)
• The Parliament of Love (1805)
• A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1632) (external scan)
• The Roman Actor (1629)
• The Maid of Honour (1632)
• The Picture (1630)
• The Great Duke of Florence (1635)
• The Emperor of the East (1631)
• Believe as you List (1848)
• The City Madam (1658)
• The Guardian (1655)
• The Bashful Lover (1655)

With John Fletcher

• The Knight of Malta (1647)
• The Queen of Corinth (1647)
• The Custom of the Country (1647)
• The Sea Voyage (1647)
• The Double Marriage (1647)
• The Beggar's Bush (1647)
• The False One (1647)
• The Prophetess (1647)
• The Lovers' Progress (1647)
• The Spanish Curate (1647)
• The Fair Maid of the Inn (1647)
• Barnavelt (1881)
• Henry VIII
• The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634)
• A Very Woman, or the Prince of Tarent (1655)

With John Fletcher and others (as noted)

• The Honest Man's Fortune (1647), with Nathaniel Field and Robert Daborne
• Thierry and Theodoret (1621), with Field and another (possibly George Wilkins)
• The Bloody Brother (1639), with Field and another (possibly George Wilkins)
• The Elder Brother (1637), with Francis Beaumont

With others (as noted)

• The Second Maiden's Tragedy, with Cyril Tourneur
• Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid (1647), with another hand (unknown)
• The Fatal Dowry (1632), with Nathaniel Field
• The Virgin Martyr (1621), with Thomas Dekker

Collected works

• The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger (1779), in 4 vols., edited by John Monck Mason (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4)
• The Plays of Philip Massinger (1805), in 4 vols., edited by William Gifford

Works about Massinger

• "Philip Massenger," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 94−96), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Philip Massinger", (1882) a sonnet by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Massinger, Philip," by William Minto in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (15) (1883)
• "Massinger, Philip," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Massinger, Philip," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Massinger, Philip," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Philip Massinger" in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920) by T. S. Eliot

On his works

• "New Way to Pay Old Debts, A," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)