Professional Playwrights: Massinger, Ford, Shirley and Brome

By Ira Clark

The most neglected of the English Renaissance playwrights are the major Carolines-Philip Massinger, John Ford, James Shirley, and Richard Brome. Writing in the 1620s and 1630s, always in the shadow of their great precursors, Shakespeare and Jonson, they have often been dubbed mere purveyors of slick, escapist sensationalism who avoided the great issues of their day and turned away from the impending breakdown of English society. Ira Clark's revisionist book shows us these dramatists and their ti

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813151678
• ISBN13: 9780813151670
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher