Note 7 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
The only other modern attempt to apportion the play is that of C. Beck (The Fatal Dowry, Friedrich-Alexander Univ. thesis, 1906, pp. 89–94). He assigns Massinger everything except the prose passages of II, ii and IV, i, and perhaps II, i, 93–109. His a priori theory of distribution seems to be that all portions of the play which he deems of worth must be Massinger’s. It is difficult to speak of Beck’s monograph with sufficiently scant respect. [↩]