Fletcher, Massinger, and Roman Imperial Character

Curran, John E.

doi:10.1353/cdr.0.0072

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2009

DOI: 10.1353/cdr.0.0072

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Fletcher, Massinger, and Roman Imperial Character

John E. Curran¹

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“… See, e.g., Patterson (1984),Hartley (2001),Curran (2009),Rochester (2010),Greenberg (2011),Dunnum (2012), andRobertson (2021).6 SeeBriggs (1912),Gibson (1961),Edwards and Gibson (1976a),Butler (1985), White (2007), andParavano (2019).…”

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"Remembrance of things past": Classical and Renaissance echoes in Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor

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This essay discusses Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor (1626) as an example of the profoundly composite nature of early modern dramatic texts. Massinger placed borrowings and echoes from several classical and early modern texts in a new context, arguably counting on audiences’ pleasure of recognition. Focusing on sources which have not received enough critical attention, this essay investigates the influence of classical authors like Tacitus and Statius, and the impact of other Massingerian plays to shed light on the way the playwright appropriated and refashioned some sources to suit his tragedy’s political agenda.

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"Remembrance of things past": Classical and Renaissance echoes in Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor

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‘And shall we now grow strangers?’: The Cause and Cure of Twinship in The Bloody Brother and Monsieur Thomas

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An Information Theoretic Clustering Approach for Unveiling Authorship Affinities in Shakespearean Era Plays and Poems

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In this paper we analyse the word frequency profiles of a set of works from the Shakespearean era to uncover patterns of relationship between them, highlighting the connections within authorial canons. We used a text corpus comprising 256 plays and poems from the 16th and 17th centuries, with 17 works of uncertain authorship. Our clustering approach is based on the Jensen-Shannon divergence and a graph partitioning algorithm, and our results show that authors' characteristic styles are very powerful factors in explaining the variation of word use, frequently transcending cross-cutting factors like the differences between tragedy and comedy, early and late works, and plays and poems. Our method also provides an empirical guide to the authorship of plays and poems where this is unknown or disputed.

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Fletcher, Massinger, and Roman Imperial Character

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

"Remembrance of things past": Classical and Renaissance echoes in Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor

"Remembrance of things past": Classical and Renaissance echoes in Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor

‘And shall we now grow strangers?’: The Cause and Cure of Twinship in The Bloody Brother and Monsieur Thomas

An Information Theoretic Clustering Approach for Unveiling Authorship Affinities in Shakespearean Era Plays and Poems

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