The Bondman

This article is about Jacobean play. For the novel by Hall Caine, see The Bondman (novel). For the films, see The Bondman (1916 film) and The Bondman (1929 film).

The Bondman is a later Jacobean-era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Philip Massinger, first published in 1624. The play has been called "the finest of the more serious tragicomedies" of Massinger.[1]

  1. ^ Philip Edwards, quoted in: Terence P. Logan 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; p. 101.