This hugely successful volume of writing is a celebration of some of the world's wilder places.
Part of the Globe Quartos series, co-published with Shakespeare's Globe marking their rediscoveries of forgotten plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries.Middleton's craft and wit abound in this masterly satire of London society at the turn of ...
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...
A Mad World, My Masters
A mad world, my Masters
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...