Women Beware Women, and Other Plays Paperback / softback
by Thomas Middleton
Edited by Richard (Professor of English, Professor of English, Lancaster University) Dutton
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies outside of 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 tp pacifist houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it.
The best-value collection available with the most officially up-to-date introduction; all the play texts are newly edited with richly informative annotation.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:528 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/02/2009
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- ISBN:9780199538928
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:528 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/02/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199538928
