This volume brings together aspects of Middleton's craft through a detailed study of representative plays.
Renaissance Dramatists
Series Editor, Sean McEvoy
An invaluable resource for all students of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, each volume in the series provides an authoritative and up-to-date survey of a major dramatist's work with a focus on the plays in performance on stage and screen.
Each guide provides:
* An informative account of the writer's entire dramatic output, with an emphasis on those plays most frequently studied at university, college and school
* Detailed and relevant contextual information on history, culture, politics and biography
* A lucid survey of important recent criticism
* Original critical readings of the major plays
Thomas Middleton, Renaissance Dramatist
Michelle O'Callaghan
This guide introduces a major English Renaissance dramatist and contemporary of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson, via his treatment of sexuality, morality and politics as well as his stagecraft.
The book analyses how each of Middleton's plays work in terms of the early modern theatre and dramatic genres, as well as exploring the broader cultural issues shaping the plays. It introduces critical responses to Middleton's works as well as modern performances, demonstrating how modern critics, producers, dramatists and film makers see Middleton's dark, playful and challenging plays as speaking to our times.
Key Features
* Provides wide coverage of Middleton's city comedies, tragedies, and collaborative plays and readings of The Roaring Girl, Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Revenger's Tragedy, Women Beware Women, and The Changeling
*Uses the most recent edition available, the Oxford Middleton (2007)
*Guides the reader through criticism of the plays as well as recent work on early modern theatre and culture
*Emphasis on Middleton's stagecraft and on modern adaptations and film versions of his plays
Michelle O'Callaghan is Reader in Early Modern Literature in the Department of English and American Literature at the University of
