Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640 -- Criticism and interpretation
_ 398 Maid of Honour_, IV., 4, 107; _Roman Actor_, IV., 1, 121;
_Parliament of Love_, III., 2, 17; _Guardian_, III., 6, 29; _Virgin
Martyr_, V., 2, 238; _Emperor of the East_, V., 3, 109; _Renegado_,
II., 5, 159; _Unnatural Combat_, V., 2, 266. _Cf. Hamlet_, II., 2,
159; _Troilus and Cressida_, I., 3, 85. _Cf._ also _Prophetess_,
II., 1; V., 2; _Spanish Curate_, I., 2; _Atheist’s Tragedy_, IV., 4;
_Honest Whore_, IV., 1; _Parliament of Bees_, char. vii.
_ 399 City Madam_, I., 2, 75; _Unnatural Combat_, I., 1, 223; II., 1,
145; V., 2, 293; _Great Duke of Florence_, II., 1, 142; III., 1, 13;
V., 3, 113; _Parliament of Love_, V., 1, 102; _Believe as You List_,
I., 1, 73; I., 2, 147; II., 1, 65; III., 3, 143; _Bondman_, III., 2,
1; III., 3, 162; IV., 3, 6; V., 3, 156; _Renegado_, III., 5, 44;
_Picture_, I., 1, 79; II., 2, 130 and 155; IV., 1, 65; _Guardian_,
III., 6, 31; _Emperor of the East_, III., 4, 55; V., 3, 105; _A Very
Woman_, IV., 3, 210; _Bashful Lover_, II., 6, 19, and 50; IV., 2,
58; _Roman Actor_, II., 1, 178; III., 2, 116; V., 2, 67; _Duke of
Milan_, I., 1, 49; I., 3, 374; II., 1, 411; V., 2, 117.
_ 400 Roman Actor_, III., 2, 94; _Bondman_, V., 3, 144; _Parliament of
Love_, II., 2, 70. Bunyan has the phrase in _The Pilgrim’s
Progress_, pt. ii.: “They saw one Fool and one Want-Wit washing of
an Ethiopian with intention to make him white, but the more they
washed him, the blacker he was.” Warner, in his translation of _The
Menaechmi_ (1595), line 247, has “This is the washing of a
Blackamore.” The expression goes back to Lucian _adv. Indoct._, 28,
Αἰθίοπα σμήχειν. It occurs in _Love’s Cure_, II., 2.
_ 401 New Way_, V., I, 349.
_ 402 Emperor of the East_, IV., 5, 213.
_ 403 Bondman_, V., 3, 95. _Cf. Maid of Honour_, II., 2, 180; _The
Bashful Lover_, IV., 1, 138; V., 1, 56; _A New Way_, I., 1, 52;
III., 1, 81; _Emperor of the East_, III., 3, 25.
_ 404 The Picture_, II., 1, 123.
_ 405 A Very Woman_, I., 1, 404. _Cf._ also _Parliament of Love_, V., 1,
149. We cannot but remember poor Valentine’s prolonged but vocal
agony in Gounod’s opera.
406 II., 1, 84.
407 III., 2, 115.
408 IV., 7, 72.
409 Take as an example the death-bed scene in _The Spanish Curate_, IV.,
5.
_ 410 E. S._, VIII., 2.
411 Some idea of the way in which the two poets collaborated may be
obtained from the facts collected in Appendix III. Diderot, in a
passage quoted by Twining, in his edition of Aristotle’s _Poetics_
(p. 253), recommends collaboration: “On seroit tenté de croire qu’un
drame devrait être l’ouvrage de deux hommes de génie, l’un qui
arrangeât, et l’autre qui fit parler” (_De la Poés. Dram._, p. 288).
What Euripides thought of the arrangement will be seen in The
Andromache, lines 476-77:
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