THE FATAL DOWRY
BY
PHILIP MASSINGER ANDNATHANIEL FIELD
EDITED, FROM THE ORIGINAL QUARTO,WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
A DISSERTATION
presented to theFaculty of Princeton Universityin Candidacy for the Degreeof Doctor of Philosophy
BY
CHARLES LACY LOCKERT, Jr.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, KENYON COLLEGE
PRESS OF
THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY
LANCASTER, PA.
1918
Accepted by the Department of English, June, 1916
 
PREFACE
This critical edition of The Fatal Dowry was undertaken asa Thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degreeof Ph.D. at Princeton University. It was compiled underthe guidance and direction of Professor T. M. Parrott of thatinstitution, and every page of it is indebted to him for suggestion,advice, and criticism. I can but inadequately indicate the scopeof his painstaking and scholarly supervision, and can even lessadequately express my appreciation of his ever-patient aid, whichalone made this work possible.
I desire also to acknowledge my debt to Professor J. DuncanSpaeth of Princeton University, for his valuable suggestions inregard to the presentation of my material, notably in the Introduction;also to Professor T. W. Baldwin of Muskingum Collegeand Mr. Henry Bowman, both of them then fellow graduatestudents of mine at Princeton, for assistance on several occasionsin matters of special inquiry; and to Dr. M. W. Tyler of thePrinceton Department of History for directing me in clearing upa lego-historical point; and finally to the libraries of Yale andColumbia Universities for their kind loan of needed books.
 
INTRODUCTION
In the Stationer’s Register the following entry is recordedunder the date of “30º Martij 1632:”
CONSTABLE Entred for his copy vnder the hands of SirHENRY HERBERT and master SMITHWICKE wardena Tragedy called the ffatall Dowry. Vj d.
In the year 1632 was published a quarto volume whose title-pagewas inscribed: The Fatall Dowry: a Tragedy: As it hathbeen often Acted at the Private House in Blackfriars, by hisMajesties Servants. Written by P. M. and N. F. London,Printed by John Norton, for Francis Constable, and are to besold at his shop at the Crane, in Pauls Churchyard. 1632.
That the initials by which the authors are designated stand forPhilip Massinger and Nathaniel Field is undoubted.
Later Texts
There is no other seventeenth century edition of The FatalDowry. It was included in various subsequent collections, asfollows:
  • I. The Works of Philip Massinger—edited by Thomas Coxeter,  1759—re-issued in 1761, with an introduction by T. Davies.
  • II. The Dramatic Works of Philip Massinger—edited by John  Monck Mason, 1779.
  • III. The Plays of Philip Massinger—edited by William Gifford,  1805. There was a revised second edition in 1813, which  is still regarded as the Standard Massinger Text, and was  followed in subsequent editions of Gifford.
  • IV. Modern British Drama—edited by Sir Walter Scott, 1811.  The text of this reprint of The Fatal Dowry is Gifford’s.
  • V. Dramatic Works of Massinger                        
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