A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton

A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton

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Perhaps best known for his tragedies, Thomas Middleton also wrote many comedies of city life. This volume collects four of them; the first three, written between 1604-6, witty and rambunctious satires on the predatory life of the aspiring London citizen, the fourth a satire shading into romance.

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A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciting period of theatrical activity in the history of English drama. Best known for his tragedies, he also wrote many successful comedies of city life, and this volume offers the greatest among them. Includes: A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; A Trick to Catch the Old One; No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's.
Middleton, Thomas: - 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.
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ISBN 13 9780192834553
ISBN 10 019283455X
Title A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays
Author Thomas Middleton
Series Oxford World's Classics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1998-05-07
Number of pages 416
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