Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford

The lives of our dramatists "of the great race" furnish few materials for drama. They are provokingly barren of incident. They present neither complicated plots, nor striking situations nor well-contrasted characters. In their own age, they were overlooked as too familiar - in the next, cast aside as unfashionable. The conjectures of recent curiosity are not more certain than the Syrian Pantheism of the Irish round towers, the hieroglyphic dynasties of Egypt, or the earthenware theology of Etruria.

Many causes may have contributed to efface the footsteps of those great masters from the sands of time.

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