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Five Plays

Thomas Middleton author Neil Taylor editor Bryan Loughrey editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:30th Jun '88

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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.

ISBN: 9780140432190

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm

Weight: 319g

464 pages