Overview

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.

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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

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Richard Dutton is Professor of English, Lancaster University.

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