A New Way to Pay Old Debts

Author(s): Massinger, Philip
Note: «The plot of the play is based on the main plot of Middleton’s A Trick to Catch the Old One (printed in 1608)» (Craik, New Way, p. xi)
Date of composition:
  • 1626 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 8, p. 184)
  • 1626 -1632 (Wiggins, vol. 8, p. 184)
  • 1621 -1625 (approx.)
Date of first performance: 1633 date from title page of earliest publication
Date of first publication: 1633
Genre (Annals): Comedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 2180 (Vol. 8)  
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 2002 modern edition by D. Bevington
  • 1633 quarto Purslowe, Elizabeth Seile, Henry single-play print
      ESTC: S112423 17639 811 474a
      EEBO-TCP: A0724 - Huntington - EEBO record record - TCP HTML XML HTML
      Observations: Facsimile: Massinger, Philip. A New Way to pay Old Debts.  [1633] Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. [Reproduced from British Museum copy (Ashley 1123). Electronic reproduction by Oxford Text Archive ]

  • Wiggins:

Early Performances

  • Company: Queen Henrietta’s Men Venue: The Phoenix Date: 1621-1625
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Note: Indoor “private” theatre
      Information source: Harbage, Alfred; Schoenbaum, Samuel; Wagonheim, Sylvia Stoler. Annals of English Drama, 975-1700, 3rd edition. 1989.
    • Company: Queen Henrietta’s Men Venue: Skipton Castle Date: 1635
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: other
        Information source: Gibson,. "A New Way to Pay Old Debts". Massinger, Philip. The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger. 1978.

      Modern Productions

      • University of Tampa Department of Speech, Theater and Dance. Dir. and adapt. Bob Gonzalez. Perf. Adam Corson (Frank Wellborn), Eric Sigler (Sir Giles Overreach), Danielle Calderone (Lady Allworth), Meredith Payne (Justice Greedy), and Rodner Salgado (Jack Marrall). David Falk Theater, Tampa, FL. 27-29 Mar. 2009
        • Lizz Angello. «Review of A New Way to Pay Old Debts, presented by the University of Tampa Department of Speech, Theater and Dance at the David Falk Theater, Tampa, FL, 27-29 March 2009.» Early Modern Literary Studies 15.1 (2009-10) <URL:http://purl.oclc.org/emls/15-1/angemass.htm>.

      Modern editions

      • Shaughnessy, Robert, ed. Four Renaissance Comedies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
      • Bevington, David; Engle, Lars; Eisaman Maus, Katharine; Rasmussen, Eric, ed. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. London and New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
      • Craik, T. W., ed. A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Massinger, Philip. New York: A & C Black ; W W Norton, 1993. New Mermaids. First edition in 1964.
      • Salgado, Gamini, ed. Four Jacobean City Comedies. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1988.
      • Gibson, Colin, ed. Selected Plays of Philip Massinger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatists.
      • Edwards, Philip; Gibson, Colin, ed. The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. 5 vols.
      • Fraser, Russell A.; Rabkin, Norman, ed. Drama of the English Renaissance II: The Stuart Period. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1976.
      • Nethercot, Arthur H.; Baskervill, Charles R.; Heltzel, Virgil B., ed. Stuart Plays. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, pp. 183-280.
      • Ornstein, Robert; Spencer, Hazelton, ed. Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedy: An Anthology. Boston: Heath, 1964.
      • Lawrence, Robert G., ed. Early Seventeenth Century Drama. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1963. Everyman’s Library.
      • St Clare Byrne, Muriel, ed. A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Massinger, Philip. London: Falcon Educational Books, 1949.
      • Brooke, Charles F. Tucker; Paradise, Nathaniel Burton, ed. English Drama 1580-1642. Boston: Heath, 1933.
      • Spencer, Hazelton, ed. Elizabethan Plays. Boston: Heath, 1933.
      • Cruickshank, A. H., ed. A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Massinger, Philip. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926.
      • Matthews, Brander; Leider, Paul Robert, ed. The Chief British Dramatists Excluding Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924.
      • Wheeler, C. B., ed. Six Elizabethan Plays by Contemporaries of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915. World’s Classics Series.

      Select Bibliography: Translations

      • ES:
        • Massinger, Philip. Un nuevo modo de pagar viejas deudas. Tra. Calvo García de Leonardo, Juan José. Valencia: ARTELOPE Universitat de València, 2016.
      • IT:
        • Massinger, Philip. "Un nuovo modo di pagare vecchi debiti". Tra. Gabrielli, Vittorio. Ed. Obertello, Alfredo. Teatro Elisabettiano. Milano: Bompiani, 1951, p. 707-94. Vol. 2.
        • Massinger, Philip. "Un nuovo modo di pagare vecchi debiti". Ed. Obertello, Alfredo. Teatro Elisabettiano. Milano: Bompiani, 1951, p. 707-94. Vol. 2.
      • DE:
        • Massinger, Philip. Ein neuer Weg, alte Schulden zu bezahlen. Tra. Elster, T.; Lauterbach, E. S. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1965. (Orig: A New Way to Pay Old Debts)

      Select Bibliography: Criticism

      • Ryner, Bradley D. "The Cosmopolitical Economies of the Merchant of Venice and 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts'". Renaissance Drama. 2014, vol. 2, 42, p. 141-167.
      • Rochester, Joanne. Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
      • Ribeyrol, Wendy. "The Character as Text in Philip Massinger's 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts'". Revue LISA/LISA e-Journal. 2008, vol. 3, 6, p. 207-216.
      • Butler, Martin. "'A New Way to Pay Old Debts': Massinger's Grim Comedy". Ed. Cordner, Michael; Holland, Peter; Kerrigan, John. English Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 119-136.
      • Raw, Laurence. "Sir Donald Wolfit's 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts'". Theatre Notebook: A Journal of the History and Technique of the British Theatre. 1991, vol. 1, 45, p. 30-36.
      • Tricomi, Albert H. "’A New Way to Pay Old Debts’ and the Country-House Poetic Tradition". Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism and Reviews. 1986, 3, p. 177-187.
      • Leonard, Nancy S. "Overreach at Bay: Massinger's 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts'". Ed. Howard, Douglas. Philip Massinger: A Critical Reassessment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, p. 171-192.
      • Davies, H. N. "'A New Way to Pay Old Debts': Massinger and the RSC". Critical Quarterly. 1984, vol. 3, 26, p. 47-56.
      • Neill, Michael. "Massinger's Patriarchy: The Social Vision of 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts'". Renaissance Drama. 1979, 10, p. 185-213.
      • Fothergill, Robert A. "The Dramatic Experience of Massinger's the City Madam and 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts'". University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities. 1973, 43, p. 68-86.
      • Burelbach, Frederick M. Jr. "'A New Way to Pay Old Debts': Jacobean Morality". College Language Association Journal. 1969, 12, p. 205-213.
      • Sandhu, Joginder Singh. English Class-Conflict Comedy, 1600-1642: A Study of the Theme Epitomized in 'A New Way To Pay Old Debts'. {Falta nombre Universidad}, 1965.

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