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19%OFFThomas Middleton - Five Plays - 9780140432190 - V9780140432190
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Five Plays

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Description for Five Plays Paperback. Thomas Middleton was one of the most prolific playwrights of the Jacobean era. This collection comprises five of his 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". Also included is "The Revenger's Tragedy". Editor(s): Loughrey, Bryan; Taylor, Neil. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140432190
SKU
V9780140432190
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3

About Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton, one of the greatest of Jacobean dramatists, was born in 1580, the son of a well-to-do London bricklayer. He went to Oxford but seems not to have gained a degree. Thereafter he pursued the precarious career of a professional writerin London. In a quarter of a century he wrote, either on his own or in collaboration, nearly ... Read more

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