Five Plays
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.
- Author
- Thomas Middleton, Neil Taylor, Bryan Loughrey
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-043219-0
- EAN
- 9780140432190
- Genres
- plays, drama, classics, fiction, theatre, literature, class
- Release date
- 1988
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