find and read our plays The Plays of Philip Massinger Philip Massinger was a prolific dramatist of the first tier, and perhaps the most important playwright in the last two decades of the classic era of English Renaissance drama. Read more about Philip Massinger here. The Annotated Plays of Philip Massinger: The Virgin Martyr (1620) The Duke of Milan (1621) The Maid of Honour (1621) The Picture (1629) A New Way to Pay Old Debts (before 1633)