Five Plays

Five Plays
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1988
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780140432190

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.

The Roaring Girl

The Roaring Girl
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1987
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780719016301

Ward was in a New York banking family, brother of Julia Ward Howe, married into the Astor family, was in the Gold Rush, involved in the social life of New York and London, and was an epicure. He was also a very powerful lobbying influence on Congress and an author. His family connections and friends were prominent in many fields.