Five Plays
- ISBN-10
- 0140432191
- ISBN-13
- 9780140432190
- Series
- Five Plays
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 421
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Thomas Middleton
Description
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.
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