Massinger's share was slight, and can only have consisted in revision for a later performance. Cf. supra, pp. [141-2].
Other Plays attributed in Part to Massinger.
26. The Laws of Candy.
A. H. B. thinks a large part was written by Massinger, and that Fletcher cannot be traced.
Boyle (Eng. Stud., vii. 75) thinks that though the metrical treatment is like Beaumont's, the play is evidently later in date, perhaps due to Shirley. Fleay (Eng. Stud., ix. 23) assigns it to Massinger and Field.
Macaulay says “probably by Massinger and another author (not Fletcher).”
A. H. C.: I find no trace here of the Massinger that we know.
27. The Captain.
Macaulay: “By Fletcher and another, perhaps Massinger.”
A. H. C.: This is one of the many plays in the Fletcher corpus which begins admirably and falls away into improbability. I find no trace of Massinger here, though the incident in Act IV., 5 reminds one of the banquet in The Guardian, Act III., 6.