MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS AND OTHER PLAYS by Middleton, Thomas ISBN 019283455X
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Perhaps best known for his tragedies, Thomas Middleton also wrote many comedies of city life. This volume collects four of them; the first three, written between 1604-6, witty and rambunctious satires on the predatory life of the aspiring London citizen, the fourth a satire shading into romance.
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciting period of theatrical activity in the history of English drama. Best known for his tragedies, he also wrote many successful comedies of city life. This volume brings together the greatest among them: A Mad World, My Masters, Michaelmas Term, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's. The first three plays, written between 1604 and 1606, are witty and rambunctious satires on the predatory life of the aspiring London citizen. Sex and money are the characters' obsessions; their caustic exposure Middleton's. In the later play, No Wit (1612), satire shades into romance, prose into verse. Together the four plays reveal the range and exuberance of Middleton's writing for the comic stage. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.
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MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS AND OTHER PLAYS
[edit] Author
Middleton, Thomas
[edit] ISBN
019283455X
[edit] Published
07/05/1998
[edit] Publisher
Oxford University Press
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paperback (B format)
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