Professional Playwrights: Massinger, Ford, Shirley and Brome - Paperback

by Ira Clark (Author)

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

Author Biography

Ira Clark is professor emeritus of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and author of The Moral Art of Philip Massinger.