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Women Beware Women
And Other Plays
1968
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This volume contains Thomas Middletons four greatest plays, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Women Beware Women, The Changeling, and A Game at Chess/i>. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is the most complex and effective of the city comedies. Women Beware Women and The Changeling (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies aside from 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 to packed houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it. With the most up-to-date introduction available, this volume offers all the play texts newly edited with richly informative annotation.

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Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton
Author · 17 books
Thomas Middleton (1580 – 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in comedy and tragedy. Also a prolific writer of masques and pageants, he remains one of the most noteworthy and distinctive of Jacobean dramatists.
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