Women Beware Women And Other Plays
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Author | : Thomas Middleton |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2014-07-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1408144603 |
One of the great Renaissance playwrights, Middleton wrote tragedies essentially different from either Marlowe's or Shakespeare's, being wittier than the former and more grittily ironic than the latter. The genre of 'citizen tragedy' came into its own in the eighteenth century, but Middleton can claim to have created it: Bianca, wife of a middling commercial agent, arouses the lust of the Duke of Florence and becomes his mistress, first secretly, then openly and finally, after her husband has been seduced by the scheming Lady Livia and stabbed by Livia's brother, the Duke's wife. Livia plots her revenge, and the play ends with a banquet and a masque that are a triumph of black farce. Middleton's powerful, psychologically complex female characters and his clear-sighted analysis of misogyny are bound to impress today's audiences, but it is the pervasive irony - cynicism, even - with which he dissects the motivations of both oppressor and victim that makes him so eerily modern.
Author | : Thomas Middleton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780192826145 |
Author | : Thomas Middleton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1978-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780801820762 |
"Women Beware Women" is among the most powerful and adroitly plotted of Jacobean tragedies. Written by Thomas Middleton, a later contemporary of Shakespeare, the play deals with topics of enduring fascination such as sexual and financial greed, the sexual exploitation of women by a manipulative older woman, murderous revenge and the sexual predatoriness of a man in a position of power. This edition is designed for the classroom and for the reader interested in the best in Renaissance drama.
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.
Author | : Thomas Middleton |
Publisher | : Calder Publications Limited |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Jesse Berger |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : English drama (Tragedy) |
ISBN | : 9780822223672 |
THE STORY: Thomas Middleton's rarely performed masterpiece, WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN, is a fascinating and entertaining tragicomedy (or is it a comi-tragedy?) by one of Shakespeare's most popular contemporaries. This provocative play portrays a ruling cl
Author | : Thomas Middleton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2014-10-10 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1408174634 |
This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Thomas Middleton's plays - Women Beware Women; The Changeling; The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - with a new introduction by William Carroll, examining the plays in the context of early modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as their language, characters and themes. On-page commentary notes guide students to a better understanding and combine to make this an indispensable student edition ideal for study and classroom use from A Level upwards.
Author | : Andrew Hiscock |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2011-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 144117771X |
A comprehensive introduction to Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research.
Author | : Thomas Middleton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1998-05-07 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780192834553 |
Michaelmas term: Cast gender - mixed; number - 19 males, 7 females (total 16); size - large; length - 5 acts, 18 scenes. Elizabethan drama. Property swindling of country landowner by city merchant.
Author | : Thomas Middleton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1653 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
The Changeling is a popular Renaissance tragedy in which the relationship between money, sex, and power is explored. Frequently performed and studied in University courses, it is a key text in the New Mermaids series.