Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640 -- Criticism and interpretation
_Rape of Lucrece_, II., 1; II., 3; _The Devil is an Ass_, III., 1;
_Westward Ho!_ I., 1; “I tell thee, there is equality enough between
a lady and a city dame if their hair be but of a colour.” Ford
contrasts the ladies of the city and the court in _The Broken
Heart_, II., 1. In Dekker’s _Shoemaker’s Holiday_, I., 1, the Lord
Mayor says:
Too mean is my poor girl for his high birth,
Poor citizens must not with courtiers wed.
_Cf._ also _A Chaste Maid in Cheapside_, I., 1:
MAUDLIN. Besides, you have a presence, sweet Sir Walter,
Able to dance a maid brought up in the city;
A brave court-spirit makes our virgins quiver.
_Eastward Ho!_ deals with the same contrast. _Cf._ also the
Induction to _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, and _ib._, IV., 5;
Induction to _Four Plays in One_.
_ 47 Renegado_, I., 3, 92-94; _City Madam_, I., 2, 34. _Cf._ _Henry
VIII._, V., 4; _Shoemaker’s Holiday_, V., 2; _The Honest Whore_, Pt.
I., III., 1; _Sir Thomas More_, II., 1.
_ 48 Parliament of Love_, IV., 5, 12; _New Way_, II., 1, 142. _Cf._
_Epicoene_, V., 1 _bis_; _Elder Brother_, IV., 3; _Honest Man’s
Fortune_, V., 3; _Thierry and Theodoret_, II., 3.
_ 49 Unnatural Combat_, III., 3, 35; IV., 2, 35; _Parliament of Love_,
IV., 5, 125, 126; _Bondman_, V., 3, 245-252; _Guardian_, III., 3, 8;
_City Madam_, IV., 1, 74; _Duke of Milan_, III., 2, 18. _Cf._ _1
Henry IV._, II., 2, 49; III., 1, 130; _2 Henry IV._, IV., 3, 52-54;
_Winter’s Tale_, IV., 3, 181-263; V., 2, 25-27; _Antony and
Cleopatra_, V., 2, 215; _Queen of Corinth_, III., 1; _Spanish
Curate_, IV., 7; _False One_, I., 1; _Elder Brother_, IV., 4; _The
White Devil_, p. 23b; _The Devil’s Law-case_, pp. 131_b_ and 143_b_;
_Love’s Sacrifice_, III., 1; IV., 1; _The Honest Whore_, Pt. I, I.,
1; _Bartholomew Fair_, Induction; II., 1; and III., 1; _Rape of
Lucrece_, II., 1; _Edward II._, II., 2; _Orlando Furioso_, IV., 1;
_George a Greene_, IV., 2; _Parliament of Bees_, ch. v.
_ 50 Renegado_, II., 4, 1. _Cf._ _Much Ado about Nothing_, V.,1,
295-297; _A King and No King_, I., 2; IV., 2; _Four Plays in One_;
_Triumph of Love_, 4; _Little French Lawyer_, III., 2; _The False
One_, III., 2; IV., 3; _Lover’s Progress_, I., 1; III., 4; V., 3;
_Cupid’s Revenge_, II., 4; _James IV._, 1, 2.
_ 51 New Way_, especially II., 1; for the difficulty of getting justice
done for the poor, _cf._ _Unnatural Combat_, I., 1; _Fatal Dowry_,
I., 1, especially lines 67-80.
52 II.; 4, 79-106. The reference to the mills is as follows:
Builders of iron mills, that grub up forests
With timber trees for shipping.
_Cf._ _Volpone_, I., 1, 33-36.
53 I., 1, 290-340.
_ 54 E.g._, in _The New Way_ and _The Guardian_.
_ 55 City Madam._
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