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Excerpt from A New Way to Pay Old Debts: A Play
Characteristics. Comparatively little is known of the lives of the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists - even the life of the greatest, Shakespeare, is wrapped in a shroud of mystery and possibility.' So with the life of Philip Massinger, the author of A New Way to Pay old Debts, one of the few early plays, apart from the Shakespearean dramas, that have held the stage since its earliest production, assigned to a year previous to 1633, when in quarto form it first reached the hands of the public.
No apology is needed for the inclusion of Massinger's famous work in T Ice Temple Series of distinguished dramatists. It is a great play in every sense of the word - a play of which even Shakespeare would not have been ashamed, and certainly far superior to the quality of the seven contemptible dramas,' as Mr. Sidney Lee styles them, 'in which Shakespeare had no hand that were published with his name or initials on the title-page while his fame was at its height.'
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