Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture
Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture

Author: Gary Taylor

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-11-22

Total Pages: 1185

ISBN-13: 0198185707

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A comprehensive companion to 'The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton', providing detailed introductions to and full editorial apparatus for the works themselves as well as a wealth of information about Middleton's historical and literary context.

Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton
Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton

Author: Swapan Chakravorty

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1996-05-23

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 019159170X

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A comprehensive reassessment of Middleton's cultural importance, this wide-ranging study examines both the writer's dramatic and non-dramatic texts to show how he laid bare the complicit interests at work behind assumptions about sex, morality, society, and politics in late feudal culture. Middleton's importance has long been acknowledged in the modern theatre, but academic criticism still seems distracted by questions regarding his morals and `Puritanism'. Swapan Chakravorty argues again the reductivism of such enquiries, and demonstrates the complexity behind the texts' disengagement from received ideological premises and gneric formulae. Combining close reading with lively historical analysis, Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton reveals Middleton to have been a pioneer of politically self-conscious theatre. Full of insight, this study brings alive the plays' meanings by engaging with the social, political, and cultural concerns of Middleton's day.

Michaelmas Term
Michaelmas Term

Author: Thomas Middleton

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780719015526

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"This edition, newly collated and edited, features complete explanations of the play's often bawdy exchanges and the complex stage action of the gulling and secondary plots. It will be invaluable for advanced students of the Middleton canon as well as all those interested in early modern London and its vibrant theatrical culture, especially the tradition of boy choristers as professional actors."--BOOK JACKET.

Penitent Brothellers
Penitent Brothellers

Author: Herbert Jack Heller

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780874137019

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"Panitent Brothellers focuses on the recurring incidents of repentance and conversion in Thomas Middleton's major comedies. Panitent Brothel's conversion in a Mad World, My Masters and Sir Walter Whorehound's repentance in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside are familiar examples of behavior that, while having precedents with St. Augustine and St. Paul, had been newly described by Luther and Calvin." "This study emphasizes close readings of Middleton's city comedies to reveal the importance of repentance and conversion in his theology."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved