Women Beware Women, and Other Plays
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Women Beware Women, and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton
This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies outside of Shakespeare - studies in lust, power, violence, and self-delusive psychology; and "A Game at Chess" was the single most popular play of the whole Shakespearean era, a satirical expose of Jesuit plotting and Anglo-Spanish politics which played to pacifist houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it. All the play texts are newly edited with informative annotation.
Dutton presents an accessible and balanced assessment of the particular difficulties which Middleton poses for a modern audience (and critics) Years Work in English Studies
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 | 9780192826145 |
| ISBN 10 | 019282614X |
| Title | Women Beware Women, and Other Plays |
| Author | Thomas Middleton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1999-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 526 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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