The work will be accompanied with short explanatory notes, and occasional critical remarks.


CONTENTS.

Page
[Life of Massinger]1
[The Virgin-Martyr]23
[The Great Duke of Florence]107
[The Bondman]205
[The Maid of Honour]299

DIRECTION TO THE BINDER.

Portrait of Massinger to face the Title-page.


[LIFE OF MASSINGER.]

Very few materials exist for a life of Massinger beyond the entries of the Parish Register or the College Books, and a few slender intimations scattered here and there in the dedications to his plays. From these scanty sources the following brief memoir is derived.