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| | Philip Massinger. Eliot, T. S. 1920. The Sacred Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Massinger, in his grasp of stagecraft, his flexible metre, his desire in the sphere of ethics to exploit both vice and virtue, is typical of an age which had much culture, but which, without being exactly corrupt, lacked moral fibre. |
 | | Massinger was, in fact, as a comic writer, fortunate in the moment at which he wrote. |
 | | Massinger is nearer to Restoration comedy, and more like his contemporary, Shirley, in assuming a certain social level, certain distinctions of class, as a postulate of his comedy. |
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