Explore "Massinger and Shakespeare" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
To please me, a poem must be either music or sense; if it is neither, I confess I cannot interest myself in it.
The first act of the Virgin Martyr is as fine an act as I remember in any play. The Very Woman is, I think, one of the most perfect plays we have. There is some good fun in the first scene between Don John, or Antonio, and Cuculo, his master[1]; and can any thing exceed the skill and sweetness of the scene between him and his mistress, in which he relates his story? [2] The Bondman is also a delightful play. Massinger is always entertaining; his plays have the interest of novels.