Philip Massinger - A Very Woman: Let Us Love Temperately, Things Violent La...

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Philip Massinger - A Very Woman: Let Us Love Temperately, Things Violent Last NotISBN13:9781780004693ISBN10:1780004699Author:Massinger, Philip (Author)Description:Philip Massinger Was Baptized At St Thomas's In Salisbury On November 24Th, 1583 Massinger Is Described In His Matriculation Entry At St Alban Hall, Oxford (1602), As The Son Of A Gentleman His Father, Who Had Also Been Educated There, Was A Member Of Parliament, And Attached To The Household Of Henry Herbert, 2Nd Earl Of Pembroke The Earl Was Later Seen As A Potential Patron For Massinger He Left Oxford In 1606 Without A Degree His Father Had Died In 1603, And Accounts Suggest That Massinger Was Left With No Financial Support This, Together With Rumours That He Had Converted To Catholicism, Meant The Next Stage Of His Career Needed To Provide An Income Massinger Went To London To Make His Living As A Dramatist, But He Is Only Recorded As Author Some Fifteen Years Later, When The Virgin Martyr (1621) Is Given As The Work Of Massinger And Thomas Dekker During Those Early Years As A Playwright He Wrote For The Elizabethan Stage Entrepreneur, Philip Henslowe It Was A Difficult Existence Poverty Was Always Close And There Was Constant Pleading For Advance Payments On Forthcoming Works Merely To Survive After Henslowe Died In 1616 Massinger And John Fletcher Began To Write Primarily For The King's Men And Massinger Would Write Regularly For Them Until His Death The Tone Of The Dedications In Later Plays Suggests Evidence Of His Continued Poverty In The Preface Of The Maid Of Honour (1632) He Wrote, Addressing Sir Francis Foljambe And Sir Thomas Bland: I Had Not To This Time Subsisted, But That I Was Supported By Your Frequent Courtesies And Favours The Prologue To The Guardian (1633) Refers To Two Unsuccessful Plays And Two Years Of Silence, When The Author Feared He Had Lost Popular Favour Although, From The Little Evidence That Survives, It Also Seems He Had Involved Some Of His Plays With Political Characters Which Would Have Cast Shadows Upon England's Alliances Philip Massinger Died Suddenly At His House Near The Globe Theatre On March 17Th, 1640 He Was Buried The Next Day In The Churchyard Of St Saviour's, Southwark, On March 18Th, 1640 In The Entry In The Parish Register He Is Described As A Stranger, Which, However, Implies Nothing More Than That He Belonged To Another Parish Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Stage DoorPublication Date:2018-05-24Weight:0.38 lbsDimensions:0.26'' H x 9.02'' L x 5.98'' WNumber of Pages:122Language:English

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