Thomas Middleton. The Collected Works

Eds: Gary Taylor & Lavagnino

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007

About this Item

2016 pages. Illustrations in b/w. Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - 'our other Shakespeare' - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created lasting masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office hit of early modern London (the unique history play A Game at Chess ). His range extends beyond these traditional genres to tragicomedies, masques, pageants, pamphlets, epigrams, and Biblical and political commentaries, written alone or in collaboration with Shakespeare, Webster, Dekker, Ford, Heywood, Rowley, and others. Compared by critics to Aristophanes and Ibsen, Racine and Joe Orton, he has influenced writers as diverse as Aphra Behn and T. S. Eliot. Though repeatedly censored in his own time, he has since come to be particularly admired for his representations of the intertwined pursuits of sex, money, power, and God. Very good hardback copy with a like dustjacket having very minor edge wear protected in a clear mylar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thomas Middleton. The Collected Works
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2007
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • 17th Century History
  • Biographies & Autobiographies