Excerpt from James Shirley: With an Introduction
In considering the copious work of Shirley we are brought face to face with a man who was obviously a student of the printed writings of his immediate predecessors. The works of the dramatists had begun to be edited when he first came forward. Ben Jonson had collected his plays in 1616, Shakespeare was edited in 1623; Lyly followed in 1632, Marston in 1633. Shirley was, obviously, a devourer of printed plays, and he is sometimes scarcely to be distinguished from the Barry Cornwalls and George Darleys who wrote "dramatic scenes" in the Elizabethan spirit two centuries later. More than enough has been said of Shirley as a supposed representative of the decadence; he has never recovered from the unjust sneers of Dryden. Yet, in reality, to study the drama in the process of pulverisation we must turn, not to him, but to Glapthorne, Brome, and Jasper Mayne.
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