Excerpt from A New Way to Pay Old Debts: With Introduction and Notes His property, in the assured hope that he will thereby reap a reward much greater than he could ever expect from his niggardly and tyrannical employer. Wellborn's plot being so far advanced, we come to a scene in which Lovell is received at Overreach's country-seat in the character of a suitor for Margaret's hand. But here again the usurer is the subject of a stratagem planned between Lovell and his page. Lovell is to play the part of lover only in order to arrange for the elopement of Margaret with Allworth. A mighty feast has been prepared by Overreach, when, as the guests are about to sit down to it, Lady Allworth presents herself at the house. With her is W'ellborn, to whom for her sake Overreach not only extends his hospitality, but supplies him with a thousand pounds to enable him to pay his petty debts and marry the widow, of whose wealth he hopes to make himself master through the prodigality of her husband. Meanwhile, Lovell's pretended courtship of Margaret has gone on so well that Overreach, in hot haste to secure a titled son-in-law, arranges to have the marriage performed at another country-honse of his by a resident chaplain whose ready subservience will waive the usual legal formalities. Lovell and Margaret, the latter with pre tended reluctance, assent to the arrangement, the plot of course being that Allworth shall take the place of Lovell. To this end Lovell tells Overreaeh that for family reasons he would prefer the wedding to be a private one, and that even his name should be concealed from the chaplain. The directions sent to that functionary are therefore in the words Marry her to this gentleman, and Margaret, Lovell, and Allworth set out on their journey. In their absence Over mch, who has been tricked into the belief of a secret marriage between Lady Allworth and Wellbom, thinks the moment has come for demanding from the latter adequate security for his loan of a thousand pounds. Wellborn not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A New Way to Pay Old Debts: With Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

Philip., Massinger

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Play script, including biographical notes, textual details, and information about the staging of the play.

A New Way to Pay Old Debts (New Mermaids)

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Philip Massinger's tragedy, The Roman Actor, was first performed in 1626, as King James I's reign came to an end and his son Charles I acceded to the throne. Three years later, when the play was published, relations between the king and many in parliament and the country had worsened. The Roman Actor - until recently neglected in the theatre but regarded by many critics, and Massinger himself, as his finest play - explores the balance between private and public moralities, effectively condemns tyranny, and defends plays, anatomising both the theatre of power and the power of theatre. This new Revels Plays volume provides a modernised text, with a thorough introduction that sets out Massinger's intervention in the political tensions of his own time and examines his clear-eyed portrayal of the pleasures and perils of performance. It also includes a detailed commentary on the play designed to be of value to students, specialist readers and performers, and an appendix discussing the play's textual history. The edition focuses on the play's theatrical life in its own time and ours and, in addition to a detailed stage history, includes an interview with Sir Antony Sher, who played the role of the tyrannical Roman emperor, Domitian, in the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production in 2002.

The Roman Actor: A Tragedy (Revels Plays) (The Revels Plays)

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Manchester University Press

Philip Massinger’s tragedy The Roman Actor, was first performed in 1626, as King James I’s reign came to an end and his son Charles I acceded to the throne. Three years later, when the play was published, relations between the king and many in parliament and the country had worsened. The Roman Actor – until recently neglected in the theatre but regarded by many critics, and Massinger himself, as his finest play – explores the balance between private and public moralities, effectively condemns tyranny, and defends plays, anatomising both the theatre of power and the power of theatre. This new Revels Plays volume provides a modernised text, with a thorough introduction that sets out Massinger’s intervention in the political tensions of his own time and examines his clear-eyed portrayal of the pleasures and perils of performance. It also includes a detailed commentary on the play designed to be of value to students, specialist readers and performers, and an appendix discussing the play’s textual history. The edition focuses on the play’s theatrical life in its own time and ours and, in addition to a detailed stage history, includes an interview with Sir Antony Sher, who played the role of the tyrannical Roman emperor, Domitian, in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed production in 2002.

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A New Way to Pay Old Debts; A A Play Written by Philip Massinger

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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

An edition of Philip Massinger's Duke of Milan

A re-working of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" as a waspish city comedy that attacks the greed, hypocrisy and self-indulgence of 1630s London. Sir John Frugal and his daughters' spurned suitors return from their travels disguised as Amerindians. Their feigned godliness is contrasted with the failure of Christian charity.

The City Madam

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A New Way to Pay Old Debts: With Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

A New Way to Pay Old Debts (New Mermaids)

The Roman Actor: A Tragedy (Revels Plays) (The Revels Plays)

The Roman Actor: By Philip Massinger (The Revels Plays)

A New Way to Pay Old Debts; A A Play Written by Philip Massinger

The Fatal Dowry

The Fatal Dowry

An edition of Philip Massinger's Duke of Milan

The City Madam