A Mad World, My Masters
- ISBN-10
- 0803252781
- ISBN-13
- 9780803252783
- Series
- A Mad World, My Masters
- Pages
- 111
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1965
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Thomas Middleton
Description
The play belongs to the special subgenre known as city comedy; it provides a satirical and rather cynical view of life, as an amoral and fairly ruthless battle of wits in the urban metropolis of early 17th-century London. It was premiered sometime around the middle of the first decade of the century by the Children of Paul's, a company of boy actors popular at the time -- a troupe that tended to specialise in a drama for an elite audience of gentlemen rather than the more broad-based theatre of the large public playhouses like the Globe or Fortune Theatres.
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- 1995
- 389 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press