“Remembrance of things past”
Classical and Renaissance echoes in Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor
Abstract
The essay purposes to investigate Philip Massinger’s intertextual ability to draw on a multiplicity of different works, and bend them to his dramaturgic needs to create original and recognizably personal plays. I will take The Roman Actor (1626) as a case study and discuss it as an example of “mosaic-like textuality.” Massinger introduced in a new context borrowings and echoes counting on the audience’s pleasure of recognition, and their dramatic competence in terms of intertextuality. I will analyze how quotations and references may affect the interpretation of the text and its characters, concentrating on the Emperor and his wife.
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