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Five Plays

Five Plays
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1988
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780140432190

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Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.


A Game at Chess

A Game at Chess
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1997-03-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780719016349

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Thomas Middleton's notorious play, A Game at Chess, provoked a scandal when it was first performed in 1624. Through a masterly use of the metaphor of chessplay, this satire of men in high places was immediately recognized. The play was performed nine times to large theater audiences before the Privy Council closed the Globe theatre. Numerous contemporary reports and official documents relating to the scandal (printed in the appendix, some for the first time ever), provide a rich content for this fascinating political play. This Revels Plays edition presents a fully-annotated text based on close analysis of the many surviving documents and editions. The play is thoroughly contextualized within contemporary politics and theatrical history.


The Changeling

The Changeling
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1653
Genre: English drama
ISBN:

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The Changeling is a popular Renaissance tragedy in which the relationship between money, sex, and power is explored. Frequently performed and studied in University courses, it is a key text in the New Mermaids series.


Women Beware Women

Women Beware Women
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2014-07-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408144603

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One of the great Renaissance playwrights, Middleton wrote tragedies essentially different from either Marlowe's or Shakespeare's, being wittier than the former and more grittily ironic than the latter. The genre of 'citizen tragedy' came into its own in the eighteenth century, but Middleton can claim to have created it: Bianca, wife of a middling commercial agent, arouses the lust of the Duke of Florence and becomes his mistress, first secretly, then openly and finally, after her husband has been seduced by the scheming Lady Livia and stabbed by Livia's brother, the Duke's wife. Livia plots her revenge, and the play ends with a banquet and a masque that are a triumph of black farce. Middleton's powerful, psychologically complex female characters and his clear-sighted analysis of misogyny are bound to impress today's audiences, but it is the pervasive irony - cynicism, even - with which he dissects the motivations of both oppressor and victim that makes him so eerily modern.


Michaelmas Term

Michaelmas Term
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2000
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780719015526

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"This edition, newly collated and edited, features complete explanations of the play's often bawdy exchanges and the complex stage action of the gulling and secondary plots. It will be invaluable for advanced students of the Middleton canon as well as all those interested in early modern London and its vibrant theatrical culture, especially the tradition of boy choristers as professional actors."--BOOK JACKET.


Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1890
Genre:
ISBN:

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Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works

Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 2018
Release: 2007-11-22
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0198185693

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Thomas Middleton is one of the few playwrights in English whose range and brilliance comes close to Shakespeare's. This handsome edition makes all Middleton's work accessible in a single volume, for the first time. It will generate excitement and controversy among all readers of Shakespeare and the English classics.


Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture

Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture
Author: Gary Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1184
Release: 2007
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0199678731

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Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is a comprehensive companion to The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, providing detailed introductions to and full editorial apparatus for the works themselves as well as a wealth of information about Middleton's historical and literary context.


A Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton's The Witch

A Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton's The Witch
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0429590113

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Published in 1993: The first modern scholarly edition of the author's play, not published until 1778. Sebastian reclaims his betrothed from Antonio; the Duchess avenges herself on the Duke for making her drink from her father; and Abberzanes and Francesca have an illicite affair. The witches are credible forces of evil.


Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama

Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama
Author: Mark Kaethler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2021-05-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501513990

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Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama represents the first sustained study of Middleton’s dramatic works as responses to James I’s governance. Through examining Middleton’s poiesis in relation to the political theology of Jacobean London, Kaethler explores early forms of free speech, namely parrhēsia, and rhetorical devices, such as irony and allegory, to elucidate the ways in which Middleton’s plural art exposes the limitations of the monarch’s sovereign image. By drawing upon earlier forms of dramatic intervention, James’s writings, and popular literature that blossomed during the Jacobean period, including news pamphlets, the book surveys a selection of Middleton’s writings, ranging from his first extant play The Phoenix (1604) to his scandalous finale A Game at Chess (1624). In the course of this investigation, the author identifies that although Middleton’s drama spurs political awareness and questions authority, it nevertheless simultaneously promotes alternative structures of power, which manifest as misogyny and white supremacy.