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The Fatal Dowry
Nathaniel Field and Philip Massinger
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Novall Junior, the cowardly, foppish, and unscrupulous gallant, though a flimsy personality, affords once or twice, in the Fieldian prose, rather good humor: e. g.—
Nay, o’ my soul, ’tis so; what fouler object in the world, than to see a young, fair, handsome beauty unhandsomely dighted, and incongruently accoutred? or a hopeful chevalier unmethodically appointed in the external ornaments of nature? For, even as the index tells us the contents of stories, and directs to the particular chapters, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality and habiliment of th. . . Read More
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Not one of Massinger's best plays. Partly about a weird story in which a dead man's creditors won't release his body for burial until his debts are paid off, which they can't be because he spent all the money on helping defend his country. It gets stranger too, with a healthy dose of misogyny and so
The main storyline is reasonably interesting, but there are several episodes which don't seem to advance the plot, or otherwise add anything to the experience of reading the play.
I read this one online, using Early English Books Online (EEBO).
This is a mediocre Jacobean play, little read and principally remembered for the contribution of Nathan Field--an actor-dramatist with a very small output--whom experts tell us composed about two-fifths of the play. (The experts say Massinger wrote the tragic scenes, Field the humorous and courtly o