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    Philip Massinger (1583 – 17 March 1640) was an English dramatist. His finely plotted plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam, and The...
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  • Massinger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Philip Massinger (1583–1640), English dramatist William Massinger (1514/15–1593/94), English...
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    Fletcher collaborated in writing plays, chiefly with Francis Beaumont or Philip Massinger, but also with Shakespeare and others. Although his reputation has...
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    Penitent itself was an adaptation of The Fatal Dowry (1632), a play by Philip Massinger and Nathan Field. The name Lothario was previously used for a somewhat...
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  • organisations, and is the opposite of a whitelist. The English dramatist Philip Massinger used the phrase "black list" in his 1639 tragedy The Unnatural Combat...
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  • known as The Bloody Brother) (?1616–30?) – John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman (The drinking song) 1617 Warenar (play) by Pieter Corneliszoon...
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  • Ben Jonson II • Ben Jonson III • Christopher Marlowe • Philip Massinger I • Philip Massinger II • Thomas Middleton I • Thomas Middleton II • Nero and...
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    17th-century tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, as well as Anthony Trollope's 1882 dystopian novel The Fixed Period...
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    like George Peele and Robert Greene, and later ones like Brome and Philip Massinger, are marked by financial uncertainty, struggle and poverty. Playwrights...
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    elaborate, artificial rhetoric. Some of Fletcher's contemporaries, notably Philip Massinger and James Shirley, wrote popular tragicomedies. Richard Brome also...
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