Philip Massinger
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students of English literary history who need to understand 17th-century playwrights
- Readers interested in drama from Shakespeare's time and after
- Literature enthusiasts seeking to expand their English reading through critical works
- Teachers of English drama courses who need supplementary background on playwrights
Not a good fit for
- People with no knowledge of early English drama who wish to start by reading plays from scratch
- Specialist scholars seeking the latest contemporary research on Massinger
- Readers who only want light stories and lack patience for the genre of literary criticism
Reading tips
- Read a Chinese summary or introduction to one of Massinger's representative plays first, then approach the criticism; understanding will be smoother.
- While reading, note down the author's key judgments on Massinger's style for comparison with later research.
- Keep a separate short list of names and play titles, and refer back to it when they recur to reduce confusion.
- If reading English is difficult, read the introductory chapters first, then decide whether to read the whole book.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank (1862–1927) was a British literary scholar who devoted himself over many years to the teaching and study of English literature. Public information about his life is limited; what can be confirmed is his dates, his scholarly identity, and one representative work. His book Philip Massinger takes as its subject the Elizabethan and Jacobean playwright Philip Massinger and belongs to the tradition of author-centred studies of English Renaissance drama. Works of this kind typically combine textual and bibliographical scholarship, biographical sources, and close reading to examine a playwright's career, the attribution of his works, and their artistic features, thereby establishing his place in literary history. Cruickshank's study continues the author-centred scholarly tradition of the period in which English literature was being established as an academic discipline. His work remains of reference value for later scholarship on Massinger and reflects, in one instance, the orientations of English literary teaching and research in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.
