The Changeling (Mathew Carey Library of English and American Literature)

The Changeling (Mathew Carey Library of English and American Literature)

by Thomas Middleton (Author), William Rowley (Author), Matthew W. Black (Editor)

Synopsis

The Changeling is a powerful psychological tragedy of the moral degeneration of a highborn Spanish girl through a crime prompted by obsessive love. Thomas Middleton was probably responsible for the tragic plot, and William Rowley for the comic subplot concerning the antics of a young rake who contrives to have himself committed to an insane asylum for love of the proprietor's handsome wife.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 19 Dec 1966

ISBN 10: 9780812275
ISBN 13: 9780812275247

Media Reviews

This edition of The Changeling presents a spaciously printed, modernized text of the play with a very brief introduction and a minimum of commentary and textual annotation. -Notes and Queries

Author Bio
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a prolific and successful English Jacobean playwright and poet. William Rowley (c. 1585-1626) was an English actor and dramatist best known for works written in collaboration with other dramatists of the Elizabethan period, especially Middleton.