by Richard Dutton (Editor), Thomas Middleton (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 528
Edition: New
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 15 Jul 1999
ISBN 10: 019282614X
ISBN 13: 9780192826145