A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in London's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is more important than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted commodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middleton interweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marry their children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any more for fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their property in the family. Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to a rich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony. Like many early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this play warned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country produces.-
The Duchess of Malfi
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The Spanish Tragedy
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The Country Wife
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Doctor Faustus
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An Ideal Husband
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The Rover
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The Jew of Malta
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Epicoene or The Silent Woman
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Arden of Faversham
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The Tragedy of Mariam
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The Rivals
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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"Edward II"
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The School for Scandal
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"The Way of the World"
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Edward II Revised
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The Shoemaker's Holiday
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Lady Windermere's Fan
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The Revenger's Tragedy
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The Witch of Edmonton
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She Stoops to Conquer
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The Knight of the Burning Pestle
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Pygmalion
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Three Late Medieval Morality Plays: Everyman, Mankind and Mundus et Infans
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Thomas Middleton: Four Plays
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The Changeling
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Mrs Warren's Profession
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The Beggar's Opera
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The Malcontent
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Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays
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Women Beware Women
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The Beaux' Stratagem
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The White Devil
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The "Man of Mode"
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Bartholmew Fair
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The Roaring Girl
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Five Plays
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Women Beware Women, and Other Plays
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The Changeling
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Women Beware Women
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A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays
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The Roaring Girl
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The Witch
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The Revenger's Tragedy
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Three Jacobean Tragedies
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Sabers Edge
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A New Way to Please You (or The Old Law)
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A Mad World My Masters
- Thomas Middleton; Volume 2
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A Yorkshire Tragedy
Thomas Middleton was a prolific and successful English Jacobean playwright and poet. A contemporary of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Middleton wrote over 30 plays including A Mad World, My Masters which was first performed in 1606.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780713650686 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713650680 |
| Title | A Chaste Maid in Cheapside |
| Author | Thomas Middleton |
| Series | New Mermaids |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2002-03-28 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |