Download or read book Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger written by Joanne Rochester and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger, Joanne Rochester examines examples of on-stage spectatorship in three plays by Massinger, head playwright for the King's Men from 1625 to 1640. Focusing on the specific form of metatheatrical inset in each play-plays-within in The Roman Actor, masques-within in The City Madam, and the titular miniature portrait of The Picture - she analyzes Massinger's assumptions about interpretation, perception and spectator response.