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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. The best-value collection available with the most officially up-to-date introduction; all the play texts are newly edited with richly informative annotation.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #167152 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 530 pages

Years Work in English Studies
"Dutton presents an accessible and balanced assessment of the particular difficulties which Middleton poses for a modern audience (and critics)"

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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 )