TY - BOOK ID - 78072392 TI - Massinger PY - 1991 SN - 1280323817 0203405048 9780203405048 9780415033404 0415033403 9786610323814 661032381X 9781134967537 9781134967575 9781134967582 9780415755238 0415755239 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Massinger, Philip, KW - Massinger, William, KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78072392 AB - 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 theatric ER -