Product Description

This classic text is the tale of a woman who becomes involved in murder without realizing the terrible price she will pay for it. This edition includes an introduction which analyzes the play in detail, and a commentary illuminating difficulties in the play for the modern reader.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #191523 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

From the Author
Contact with readers
This is a note from Joost Daalder, Professor of English at Flinders University (South Australia), and editor of the New Mermaids *The Changeling*. I wish to thank all readers who write to me about either the play or my edition; and I welcome the opportunity to respond to your comments to the best of my ability. My e-mail address is . With all best wishes to readers of the play, - Joost Daalder

Customer Reviews

brilliant
i love this play. I study it for a-level drama and just think so well constructed. The way that the main and sub-plot are stuebtle it superb done. It's sad though that play like this are forgotten in the shadow of Shakespeare and just wish that more schools taught this text as it's excellent

An Edition To Be Treasured
Michael Neill's new edition of Middleton and Rowley's 'The Changeling' is a book that accompanies such a brilliant piece of Renaissance drama with the notes, criticism, introduction and analysis that it deserves. On every page of the play, footnotes provide glosses, explanations and references to Middleton and Rowley's writings. The story will still resonate with a modern audience, and, as a fellow reviewer has written, it is a shame that Shakespeare's work often overshadows this, when really it should be read it conjunction with it; the story echoes that of Macbeth, Othello and A Midsummer Night's Dream, as Neill reveals. If you are looking to read 'The Changeling', this is the edition to start with.

A Good Read
This play by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley - who collaborted on a lot of different plays it is believed with quite a lot of playwrights is one for those who are into Jacobean tragedies. The play itself has as well as the main plot which is the tragedy, a sub-plot that is comical.

The sub-plot is about a man not trusting his young wife and having her installed in the madhouse where he works. The main plot is about Beatrice who doesn't want to marry the man her father has chosen for her. Inded Beatrice is hersef a femme fatale. Beatrice lusts afer another man and using a man who is obsessed with her she has the man her marriage is arranged with murdered - thus setting his brother on a course of revenge.

A story of madness, lust and sexual passion which comes across in the script there is also a psychological depth here that is unusual for the time. if you like something with murder, revenge, blackmail, suicide and passion you really should read this.