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Women Beware Women, and Other Plays
Thomas Middleton
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Description for Women Beware Women, and Other Plays
Paperback. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 31. Weight in Grams: 380.
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; "A Game at Chess" was the single most popular play of the whole Shakespearean era, a satirical exposé of Jesuit plotting and Anglo-Spanish politics which played tp pacifist houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it. ... Read more
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; "A Game at Chess" was the single most popular play of the whole Shakespearean era, a satirical exposé of Jesuit plotting and Anglo-Spanish politics which played tp pacifist houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199538928
SKU
V9780199538928
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Reviews for Women Beware Women, and Other Plays
Dutton presents an accessible and balanced assessment of the particular difficulties which Middleton poses for a modern audience (and critics)
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