Philip Massinger

The Double Marriage Philip Massinger

The Double Marriage is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, and initially printed in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647. The dramatists drew their plot from two tales in The Orator (1596) by "Lazarus Pyott" (perhaps a pseudonym of Anthony Munday). The characters' names derive from The Historie of Philip De Commines, in Thomas Danett's English translation (1596/1601). Fletcher may also have drawn upon the Controversiae of Seneca the Elder.