Note 4 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
On a careful inspection of the entire dramatic output of Massinger, both unaided work and plays done in collaboration, I have found worthy of record parallels to passages in The Fatal Dowry to the number of: 24, in The Unnatural Combat, 14 in the Massinger share (about ⅗) of The Virgin Martyr, 18 in The Renegado, 11 in The Duke of Milan, 10 in The Guardian, and in none of the rest as many as 8.—But Massinger’s undoubted share (⅓) of The Little French Lawyer yields 6; ⅖ of The Double Marriage, 6; ⅖ of The Spanish Curate, 6; ⅖ of Sir John van Olden Barnavelt, 4. [↩]