of scholars and critics. Some of the criticism has been favourable; one editor judged it "a highly finished, integrated piece of work, with everything handsomely symmetrical about it." Yet critics have not been shy about finding faults; one called Sir Giles Over-reach "the character whom his author could not control." Massinger's blending of lighter dramatic materials, like comedy of intrigue, with the play's more serious aspects, has also been faulted. In performance Notes References Ball, Robert Hamilton. The Amazing Career of Sir Giles Over-reach: being the life and adventures of a nefarious scoundrel who for three centuries pursued his sinister designs in almost all the theatres of the British Isles and America, the whole comprising a history of the stage. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1939. Cordner, Michael, Peter Holland, and John Kerrigan, eds. English Comedy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994. Gibson, Colin, ed. The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1978. Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642. Third edition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. Logan, Terence P., and Denzell S. Smith, eds. The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1978. Neill, Michael. Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics, and Society in English Renaissance Drama. New York, Columbia University Press, 2000. Smith, David L., Richard Strier, and David Bevington, eds. The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre, and Politics in London, 1576–1649. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995. English Renaissance plays 1625 plays Plays by Philip Massinger