Derived from remarkable Antiquity and Celebrated
in the Honorable City of London, at the sole Munificent charge and
expences of the Right Worthy and Worshipfull Fraternity of the
## p.
in the Honorable City of London, at the sole Munificent charge and
expences of the Right Worthy and Worshipfull Fraternity of the
## p.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
A Note on Massinger.
Westminster Review, vol.
CLII.
Oct. 1899.
Gardiner, S. R. The Political Element in Massinger. The Contemporary
Review, August 1876, vol. XXVIII, pp. 495 ff. ; rptd in N. Shaksp. Soc.
Trans. , 1875-6, pp. 314 ff.
Gaspary, A. Allgemeine Anssprüche in den Dramen Philip Massingers.
Marburg, 1890.
Gerhardt, E. Massinger's The Duke of Milan und seine Quellen. Halle,
1905.
Grack, W. Studien über die dramatische Behandlung der Geschichte von
Herodes und Mariamne in der englischen und deutschen Literatur.
Königsberg, 1904.
Heckmann, T. Massingers The Renegado und seine spanischen Quellen.
Halle, 1905.
Koeppel, E. Quellenstudien zu den Dramen George Chapman's, Philip
Massinger's und John Ford's. Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und
Culturgeschichte der germanischen Völker, vol. LXXXII. Strassburg,
1897.
Merle, A. Massinger's The Picture und Painter. Vol. 11, nov. 28. Halle, 1905.
Morris, E. C. On the Date and Composition of The Old Law. Publications
of the Modern Language Association of America, vol. XVII, p. 1. 1902.
Oliphant, E. H. The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Engl. Stud.
vol. xiv, pp. 53 ff.
Phelan, J. Philip Massinger. Anglia, vol. II, p. 1. 1879. Cf. Furnivall,
ibid. p. 504.
Raebel, K. Massingers Drama, The Maid of Honour, in seinem Verhältniss
zu Painters Palace of Pleasure, vol. II, nov. 32, unter Berücksichtigung
der übrigen Quellen. Halle, 1901.
Shands, H. A. Massinger's The Great Duke of Florence, und seine Quellen.
Halle, 1902.
Stephen, Sir L. Philip Massinger. The Cornhill Magazine, October 1877;
rptd in Hours in a Library, 3rd ed. , vol. II, 1899.
Swinburne, A. C. Philip Massinger. The Fortnightly Review, July 1889,
New Series, vol. XLVI, pp. 1 ff.
Tréverret, A. de. Étude sur Massinger. Revue de l'enseignement des
langues vivantes, December 1886 and January 1887.
Wurzbach, W. von. Philip Massinger. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xxxv, p. 214;
vol. xxxvi, p. 128.
Cf. also Fleay's Chronicle of Stage, vol. 1, pp. 164 ff. ; Robert Boyle in
Dict. of Nat. Biogr. vol. XXXVII, pp. 10 ff. ; Ward, vol. 111, pp. 1 ff. ; Court-
hope, vol. iv, pp. 348 ff.
CHAPTER VII
TOURNEUR AND WEBSTER
Webster and Tourneur. Ed. Symonds, J. A. (Mermaid Series. ) 1888. [Con-
tains : The White Devil; The Duchess of Malfi; The Atheist's Tragedy;
The Revenger's Tragedy. ]
Swinburne, A. C. The Age of Shakespeare. 1908.
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Chapter VII
445
I. TOURNEUR.
A. Original Editions.
(i) Plays.
The Revenger's Tragedie. As it hath beene sundry times Acted, by the
Kings Majesties Servants. 1607.
The Atheist's Tragedie: Or The honest Man's Revenge. As in divers places
it hath often beene Acted, Written by Cyril Tourneur. 1611.
(ii) Other Works.
The Transformed Metamorphosis. 1600.
A Funerall Poeme. Upon the Death of the Most Worthie and True Souldier.
Sir Francis Vere, Knight; Captaine of Portsmouth, &c. , L. Governour
of his Majesties Cautionarie Towne of Briell in Holland &c. 1609.
A Griefe On the Death of Prince Henrie. Expressed in a Broken Elegie,
according to the nature of such a Sorrow. By Cyril Tourneur. 1613.
(Part of Three Elegies on The most lamented Death of Prince Henrie:
the other two being written by John Webster and Tho. Heywood. ]
B. Modern Edition.
Ed. Collins, J. Churton. 2 vols. 1873.
Plays and Poems.
11. WEBSTER.
A. Original Editions.
(i) Plays.
The_White Divel; Or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of
Brachiano, With The Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous
Venetian Curtizan. Acted by the Queenes Majesties Servants. 1612.
The Tragedy of the Dutchesse Of Malfy. As it was Presented privatly, at
the Black-Friers; and publiquely at the Globe, By the Kings Majesties
Servants. The perfect and exact Coppy, with diverse things Printed,
that the length of the Play would not beare in the Presentment. 1623.
The Devils Law-case. Or, When Women goe to Law, the Devill is full of
Businesse. A new Tragecomedy. The true and perfect Copie from the
Originall As it was approovedly well Acted by her Majesties Servants.
1623.
Appius And Virginia. A Tragedy. 1654.
(ü) Plays ascribed in part or wholly to Webster.
(With William Rowley. ) A Cure for a Cuckold. A Pleasant Comedy;
As it hath been several times Acted with great Applause. 1661.
(With William Rowley. ) The Thracian Wonder. A Comical History. As
it hath been several times Acted with great Applause. 1661.
For the original editions of The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat,
West-Ward Hoe and North-Ward Hoe, see bibliography to chap. II,
sec. III A (i), ante; for those of The Weakest goeth to the Wall, see biblio-
graphy to vol. V, chap. XIII, and of The Malcontent, see bibliography to
chap. II, sec. II A (i), ante.
(iii) Masques.
Monuments of Honor.
Derived from remarkable Antiquity and Celebrated
in the Honorable City of London, at the sole Munificent charge and
expences of the Right Worthy and Worshipfull Fraternity of the
## p. 446 (#464) ############################################
446
Bibliography
Eminent Merchant Taylors. Directed in their most affectionate Love
at the Confirmation of their right Worthy Brother John Gore in the
High Office of his Majesties Lieutenant over this Royall Chamber
Expressing in a Magnificent Tryumph, all the Pageants, Chariots of
Glory, Temples of Honor, besides a specious and goodly Sea Tryumph,
as well particularly to the Honor of the City, as generally to the Glory of
this our Kingdom 1624.
(iv) Elegy,
A Monumental Columne Erected to the living Memory of the ever-glorious
Henry, late Prince of Wales. 1613.
B. Modern Editions.
Works. Ed. Dyce, A. 4 vols. 1830. New ed. 1857.
Dramatic works. Ed. Hazlitt, W. 4 vols. 1857.
The White Devil and Duchess of Malfy. Ed. Sampson, M. W. Boston, 1904.
Reviewed by Brereton, J. Le Gay, under title Webster's Twin
Masterpieces in Hermes, 22 November 1905.
The Duchess of Malfi. Ed. Vaughan, C. E. (Temple Dramatists. ) 1896.
C. Sources and Criticism.
Crawford, C. Webster and Marston. Collectanea. 2 vols. 1906-7. (Vol. 11. )
Gosse, Edmund. Webster, John. Seventeenth Century Studies, 1883.
Pierse, F. E. The Collaboration of Webster and Dekker. Yale Studies in
English. New York, 1909.
Stoll, E. E. John Webster, The Periods of his work. Vol. I. Boston
(Mass. ), 1905. [This work and Dyce's edition form the groundwork of
any serious study of Webster. ]
Sturge, L. J. Webster and the Law: a Parallel. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XLII.
1906.
8
For The White Devil (Vittoria Corombona):
Gnoli, D. Vittoria Accoramboni. Florence, 1870. [This is a complete ac-
count of the life and murder of Vittoria, based upon an exhaustive study
of the chronicles. ]
Greg, W. W. Webster's White Devil. An Essay in Formal Criticism,
Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 11, pp. 112-125. December 1900.
Mutinelli, F. Storia arcana e anedotica d'Italia, raccontata dai veneti Am-
basciatori. 2 vols. Venice, 1856. (Vol. 1, pp. 140-7, 260-4. )
Rich, Barnabe. New Description of Ireland. 1610.
Rosset, François de. Histoires tragiques de nostre temps. [The second edition
(British Museum) is dated 1615. But it is dedicated 'à feu M. le Cheva-
lier de Guise,' who died in 1614. And the first edition, of which no notice
seems discernible, must, in all probability, have been published during his
life; i. e. in, or before, 1614. ] For the story of Vittoria, under fancy names
(Cardinal Montalto, Sixtus V, is ‘Cardinal Altamont'), see Histoire xv,
pp. 402-442.
Stendhal (Beyle, Henri). Chroniques Italiennes. Paris, 1855. (pp.
145-181. )
Tempesti, C. Storia della Vita e Geste di Sisto Quinto. 2 vols. Rome, 1754.
(Vol. 1, pp. 77–89. ) New ed. 1866.
An account of Vittoria's history will be found in Symonds, J. A. , History of
the Renaissance in Italy, The Catholic Reaction, Part 1, pp. 381-399, 1886. See
also Vittoria Accoramboni, in the same author's Italian Byways, 1883.
6
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Chapter VII
447
For The Duchess of Malfi:
A true Relation of the deserved Death of that base and insolent Tyrant,
the most unworthy Marshall of France; A manifestation of the Com-
bination and Tyrannie of Marshall d'Ancre; Letter of the French King
to the Parliament of Roan; A True Recital of those things that have
been done in the Court of France since the Death of Marshall D'Ancre.
1617.
Bandello, M. Novelle. 4 vols. Lucca and Lyons, 1554-73. (Part I, nov.
XXVI. ) 9 vols. London, 1791-3. (Vol. II, pp. 212-233. )
Boaistuau, F. de, and Belleforest, P. Histoires Tragiques. 7 vols. Paris,
1580-2.
Goulart, S. Histoires admirables et memorables de nostre temps. 2nd ed.
1606.
Painter, W. Palace of Pleasure. 1st ed. 2 vols. 1566. Re-ed. by Jacobs, J.
3 vols. 1890. (The story of the Duchess is part 11, novel 23, vol. III,
pp. 343. )
Sidney, Sir Philip. Arcadia. 4to, 1590; folio (amended and enlarged), 1594.
Crawford, C. Webster and Sidney. Notes and Queries (Sept. -Nov.
1904); re-issued separately, 1907.
Vega Carpio, Lope de. Comedias. 25 parts. Madrid-Zaragosa, 1604-1647.
(Vol. xi, 1618. El Mayordomo de la Duquesa de Amalfi. )
Kiesow, K. Die verschiedenen Bearbeitungen der Novelle von der Herzogin
Amalfi des Bandello in den Literaturen des XVI und xvII
Jahrhunderts. In Anglia, vol. XVII, pp. 199–258. 1895.
For The Devil's Law Case :
Life and Death of Louis Gaufredy . . . who committed most abhominable
Sorceries. 1612.
Michaelis, 8. The admirable History of the Passion and Conversion of a
Penitent Woman, Seduced by a Magician. London, 1613. (This appears
to have been the account read by Webster. ]
An account of these trials will also be found in Michelet, Histoire de
France, vol. x1, pp. 306-337.
For A Cure for a Cuckold:
&
Love's Graduate. A Comedy by John Webster. Ptd at the Private Press
of H. Daniel. Oxford, 1885. [This extract is supposed to be Webster's
share of the published play; the title is supplied by the editor. ]
For The Thracian Wonder:
Brereton, J. Le Gay. The relation of The Thracian Wonder to Greene's
Menaphon. Modern Language Review, vol. 11, no. 1. October 1896.
Hatcher. O. L. Sources and authorship of The Thracian Wonder. Modern
Language Notes, vol.
Oct. 1899.
Gardiner, S. R. The Political Element in Massinger. The Contemporary
Review, August 1876, vol. XXVIII, pp. 495 ff. ; rptd in N. Shaksp. Soc.
Trans. , 1875-6, pp. 314 ff.
Gaspary, A. Allgemeine Anssprüche in den Dramen Philip Massingers.
Marburg, 1890.
Gerhardt, E. Massinger's The Duke of Milan und seine Quellen. Halle,
1905.
Grack, W. Studien über die dramatische Behandlung der Geschichte von
Herodes und Mariamne in der englischen und deutschen Literatur.
Königsberg, 1904.
Heckmann, T. Massingers The Renegado und seine spanischen Quellen.
Halle, 1905.
Koeppel, E. Quellenstudien zu den Dramen George Chapman's, Philip
Massinger's und John Ford's. Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und
Culturgeschichte der germanischen Völker, vol. LXXXII. Strassburg,
1897.
Merle, A. Massinger's The Picture und Painter. Vol. 11, nov. 28. Halle, 1905.
Morris, E. C. On the Date and Composition of The Old Law. Publications
of the Modern Language Association of America, vol. XVII, p. 1. 1902.
Oliphant, E. H. The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Engl. Stud.
vol. xiv, pp. 53 ff.
Phelan, J. Philip Massinger. Anglia, vol. II, p. 1. 1879. Cf. Furnivall,
ibid. p. 504.
Raebel, K. Massingers Drama, The Maid of Honour, in seinem Verhältniss
zu Painters Palace of Pleasure, vol. II, nov. 32, unter Berücksichtigung
der übrigen Quellen. Halle, 1901.
Shands, H. A. Massinger's The Great Duke of Florence, und seine Quellen.
Halle, 1902.
Stephen, Sir L. Philip Massinger. The Cornhill Magazine, October 1877;
rptd in Hours in a Library, 3rd ed. , vol. II, 1899.
Swinburne, A. C. Philip Massinger. The Fortnightly Review, July 1889,
New Series, vol. XLVI, pp. 1 ff.
Tréverret, A. de. Étude sur Massinger. Revue de l'enseignement des
langues vivantes, December 1886 and January 1887.
Wurzbach, W. von. Philip Massinger. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xxxv, p. 214;
vol. xxxvi, p. 128.
Cf. also Fleay's Chronicle of Stage, vol. 1, pp. 164 ff. ; Robert Boyle in
Dict. of Nat. Biogr. vol. XXXVII, pp. 10 ff. ; Ward, vol. 111, pp. 1 ff. ; Court-
hope, vol. iv, pp. 348 ff.
CHAPTER VII
TOURNEUR AND WEBSTER
Webster and Tourneur. Ed. Symonds, J. A. (Mermaid Series. ) 1888. [Con-
tains : The White Devil; The Duchess of Malfi; The Atheist's Tragedy;
The Revenger's Tragedy. ]
Swinburne, A. C. The Age of Shakespeare. 1908.
## p. 445 (#463) ############################################
Chapter VII
445
I. TOURNEUR.
A. Original Editions.
(i) Plays.
The Revenger's Tragedie. As it hath beene sundry times Acted, by the
Kings Majesties Servants. 1607.
The Atheist's Tragedie: Or The honest Man's Revenge. As in divers places
it hath often beene Acted, Written by Cyril Tourneur. 1611.
(ii) Other Works.
The Transformed Metamorphosis. 1600.
A Funerall Poeme. Upon the Death of the Most Worthie and True Souldier.
Sir Francis Vere, Knight; Captaine of Portsmouth, &c. , L. Governour
of his Majesties Cautionarie Towne of Briell in Holland &c. 1609.
A Griefe On the Death of Prince Henrie. Expressed in a Broken Elegie,
according to the nature of such a Sorrow. By Cyril Tourneur. 1613.
(Part of Three Elegies on The most lamented Death of Prince Henrie:
the other two being written by John Webster and Tho. Heywood. ]
B. Modern Edition.
Ed. Collins, J. Churton. 2 vols. 1873.
Plays and Poems.
11. WEBSTER.
A. Original Editions.
(i) Plays.
The_White Divel; Or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of
Brachiano, With The Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous
Venetian Curtizan. Acted by the Queenes Majesties Servants. 1612.
The Tragedy of the Dutchesse Of Malfy. As it was Presented privatly, at
the Black-Friers; and publiquely at the Globe, By the Kings Majesties
Servants. The perfect and exact Coppy, with diverse things Printed,
that the length of the Play would not beare in the Presentment. 1623.
The Devils Law-case. Or, When Women goe to Law, the Devill is full of
Businesse. A new Tragecomedy. The true and perfect Copie from the
Originall As it was approovedly well Acted by her Majesties Servants.
1623.
Appius And Virginia. A Tragedy. 1654.
(ü) Plays ascribed in part or wholly to Webster.
(With William Rowley. ) A Cure for a Cuckold. A Pleasant Comedy;
As it hath been several times Acted with great Applause. 1661.
(With William Rowley. ) The Thracian Wonder. A Comical History. As
it hath been several times Acted with great Applause. 1661.
For the original editions of The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat,
West-Ward Hoe and North-Ward Hoe, see bibliography to chap. II,
sec. III A (i), ante; for those of The Weakest goeth to the Wall, see biblio-
graphy to vol. V, chap. XIII, and of The Malcontent, see bibliography to
chap. II, sec. II A (i), ante.
(iii) Masques.
Monuments of Honor.
Derived from remarkable Antiquity and Celebrated
in the Honorable City of London, at the sole Munificent charge and
expences of the Right Worthy and Worshipfull Fraternity of the
## p. 446 (#464) ############################################
446
Bibliography
Eminent Merchant Taylors. Directed in their most affectionate Love
at the Confirmation of their right Worthy Brother John Gore in the
High Office of his Majesties Lieutenant over this Royall Chamber
Expressing in a Magnificent Tryumph, all the Pageants, Chariots of
Glory, Temples of Honor, besides a specious and goodly Sea Tryumph,
as well particularly to the Honor of the City, as generally to the Glory of
this our Kingdom 1624.
(iv) Elegy,
A Monumental Columne Erected to the living Memory of the ever-glorious
Henry, late Prince of Wales. 1613.
B. Modern Editions.
Works. Ed. Dyce, A. 4 vols. 1830. New ed. 1857.
Dramatic works. Ed. Hazlitt, W. 4 vols. 1857.
The White Devil and Duchess of Malfy. Ed. Sampson, M. W. Boston, 1904.
Reviewed by Brereton, J. Le Gay, under title Webster's Twin
Masterpieces in Hermes, 22 November 1905.
The Duchess of Malfi. Ed. Vaughan, C. E. (Temple Dramatists. ) 1896.
C. Sources and Criticism.
Crawford, C. Webster and Marston. Collectanea. 2 vols. 1906-7. (Vol. 11. )
Gosse, Edmund. Webster, John. Seventeenth Century Studies, 1883.
Pierse, F. E. The Collaboration of Webster and Dekker. Yale Studies in
English. New York, 1909.
Stoll, E. E. John Webster, The Periods of his work. Vol. I. Boston
(Mass. ), 1905. [This work and Dyce's edition form the groundwork of
any serious study of Webster. ]
Sturge, L. J. Webster and the Law: a Parallel. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XLII.
1906.
8
For The White Devil (Vittoria Corombona):
Gnoli, D. Vittoria Accoramboni. Florence, 1870. [This is a complete ac-
count of the life and murder of Vittoria, based upon an exhaustive study
of the chronicles. ]
Greg, W. W. Webster's White Devil. An Essay in Formal Criticism,
Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 11, pp. 112-125. December 1900.
Mutinelli, F. Storia arcana e anedotica d'Italia, raccontata dai veneti Am-
basciatori. 2 vols. Venice, 1856. (Vol. 1, pp. 140-7, 260-4. )
Rich, Barnabe. New Description of Ireland. 1610.
Rosset, François de. Histoires tragiques de nostre temps. [The second edition
(British Museum) is dated 1615. But it is dedicated 'à feu M. le Cheva-
lier de Guise,' who died in 1614. And the first edition, of which no notice
seems discernible, must, in all probability, have been published during his
life; i. e. in, or before, 1614. ] For the story of Vittoria, under fancy names
(Cardinal Montalto, Sixtus V, is ‘Cardinal Altamont'), see Histoire xv,
pp. 402-442.
Stendhal (Beyle, Henri). Chroniques Italiennes. Paris, 1855. (pp.
145-181. )
Tempesti, C. Storia della Vita e Geste di Sisto Quinto. 2 vols. Rome, 1754.
(Vol. 1, pp. 77–89. ) New ed. 1866.
An account of Vittoria's history will be found in Symonds, J. A. , History of
the Renaissance in Italy, The Catholic Reaction, Part 1, pp. 381-399, 1886. See
also Vittoria Accoramboni, in the same author's Italian Byways, 1883.
6
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## p. 447 (#465) ############################################
Chapter VII
447
For The Duchess of Malfi:
A true Relation of the deserved Death of that base and insolent Tyrant,
the most unworthy Marshall of France; A manifestation of the Com-
bination and Tyrannie of Marshall d'Ancre; Letter of the French King
to the Parliament of Roan; A True Recital of those things that have
been done in the Court of France since the Death of Marshall D'Ancre.
1617.
Bandello, M. Novelle. 4 vols. Lucca and Lyons, 1554-73. (Part I, nov.
XXVI. ) 9 vols. London, 1791-3. (Vol. II, pp. 212-233. )
Boaistuau, F. de, and Belleforest, P. Histoires Tragiques. 7 vols. Paris,
1580-2.
Goulart, S. Histoires admirables et memorables de nostre temps. 2nd ed.
1606.
Painter, W. Palace of Pleasure. 1st ed. 2 vols. 1566. Re-ed. by Jacobs, J.
3 vols. 1890. (The story of the Duchess is part 11, novel 23, vol. III,
pp. 343. )
Sidney, Sir Philip. Arcadia. 4to, 1590; folio (amended and enlarged), 1594.
Crawford, C. Webster and Sidney. Notes and Queries (Sept. -Nov.
1904); re-issued separately, 1907.
Vega Carpio, Lope de. Comedias. 25 parts. Madrid-Zaragosa, 1604-1647.
(Vol. xi, 1618. El Mayordomo de la Duquesa de Amalfi. )
Kiesow, K. Die verschiedenen Bearbeitungen der Novelle von der Herzogin
Amalfi des Bandello in den Literaturen des XVI und xvII
Jahrhunderts. In Anglia, vol. XVII, pp. 199–258. 1895.
For The Devil's Law Case :
Life and Death of Louis Gaufredy . . . who committed most abhominable
Sorceries. 1612.
Michaelis, 8. The admirable History of the Passion and Conversion of a
Penitent Woman, Seduced by a Magician. London, 1613. (This appears
to have been the account read by Webster. ]
An account of these trials will also be found in Michelet, Histoire de
France, vol. x1, pp. 306-337.
For A Cure for a Cuckold:
&
Love's Graduate. A Comedy by John Webster. Ptd at the Private Press
of H. Daniel. Oxford, 1885. [This extract is supposed to be Webster's
share of the published play; the title is supplied by the editor. ]
For The Thracian Wonder:
Brereton, J. Le Gay. The relation of The Thracian Wonder to Greene's
Menaphon. Modern Language Review, vol. 11, no. 1. October 1896.
Hatcher. O. L. Sources and authorship of The Thracian Wonder. Modern
Language Notes, vol.
