WorkPhilip Massinger

The Roman Actor

Philip Massinger (1583–1640)

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Documented 1846

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  • undatedThe Roman ActorDemonstrated

    “We may be permitted to copy, in this connection, the fine plea of Massinger's Roman Actor. Paris. If desire of honor was the base.”

    Papers on Literature and Art

    133-line excerpt range shows a lengthy dramatic excerpt copied from Massinger's Roman Actor.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
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Papers on Literature and Art

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“We may be permitted to copy, in this connection, the fine plea of Massinger's "Roman Actor." [followed by Paris's speech, Act I scene iii, spanning pp. 107–109]”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.