A New Way to Pay Old Debts

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A New Way to Pay Old Debts

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Philip Massinger
…of his two great comedies—A New Way to Pay Old Debts, his most popular and influential play, in which he expresses genuine indignation at economic oppression and social disorder, and The City Madam (1632?), dealing with similar evils but within a more starkly contrived plot that curiously combines naturalistic…
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…of his two great comedies—A New Way to Pay Old Debts, his most popular and influential play, in which he expresses genuine indignation at economic oppression and social disorder, and The City Madam (1632?), dealing with similar evils but within a more starkly contrived plot that curiously combines naturalistic…
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English literature
The last Renaissance dramatists
…of liberty and obedience, and A New Way to Pay Old Debts (performed 1625, printed 1633), which satirizes the behavior and outlook of the provincial gentry. The tradition of subversive domestic satire was carried down to the English Civil Wars in the plays of Brome, whose anarchic and popular comedies,…
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…of liberty and obedience, and A New Way to Pay Old Debts (performed 1625, printed 1633), which satirizes the behavior and outlook of the provincial gentry. The tradition of subversive domestic satire was carried down to the English Civil Wars in the plays of Brome, whose anarchic and popular comedies,…
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