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THOMAS MIDDLETON (1580-1627)



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This website grew out of my desire to have the plays of Thomas Middleton in one
collection, personally edited and available on word processor. Having done that,
I thought it worthwhile to take the next step and bring Middleton to the Web.
One inspiration was seeing what a convenient resource there is in a Complete
Online Shakespeare, which I used--along with the OED, a Bible search engine, and
other resources, electronic and hard-print--to edit these plays.

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In editing, I've consulted quarto facsimiles and critical editions when and
where available, and I've hypertexted significant textual decisions, along with
glossed words and phrases; so while these editions are not refereed, a good deal
of care has been taken in their preparation. The primary reason for these plays
being here is the same as for my gathering them together for myself--to be
enjoyed. At the end of the project I plan to put each play's textual apparatus
online, as well provide a separate and central database for glossary items.

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If you just happened to surf to this site, would like a quick overview of
Middleton's life and have subscribed to Encyclopedia Britannica, click here.

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The following selection is not complete, but plays will be added regularly. If
the image above the play's title is "hot," the play's online.

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Finally, there is the issue of what constitutes the Middleton canon. I've
divided the plays into three groups: Sole Authorship, Collaboration, and
Questionable Attribution; I base this grouping on the hypotheses of Middleton
scholars as well as my own research and impressions.

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SOLE AUTHORSHIP

The Phoenix
(1603-04)

Michaelmas Term
(1605)

A Mad World, My Masters
(1605-06)

A Trick to Catch the Old One
(1606)

The Puritan
(1606)

 

The Revenger's Tragedy
(1606-07)

Your Five Gallants
(1607)

[The Second Maiden's Tragedy]
(1611)

No Wit, No Help like a Woman's
(1611)

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
(1613)

 

The Witch
(c. 1613)

More Dissemblers
besides Women (1615)

The Widow
(1616)

 

Hengist, King of Kent
(1619-20)

Women Beware Women
(c. 1622)

A Game at Chess
(1624)


COLLABORATIONS

The Family of Love
(1602-03)

The Honest Whore, Part I
(1604)

A Yorkshire Tragedy
(1605)

The Roaring Girl
(1611)

Wit at Several Weapons
(1613)

 

The Nice Valour
(1615-16)

A Fair Quarrel
(1615-17)

The Old Law
(1618)

Anything for a Quiet Life
(1621)

The Changeling
(1622)


QUESTIONABLE ATTRIBUTION

The Bloody Banquet
(1600-02?)

Blurt, Master Constable
(1601-02)

Timon of Athens
(1607-08)

The Spanish Gypsy
(1623)


SOME COLLABORATORS AND RIVALS



 



 



I'D LIKE TO ADD THE IMAGES OF OTHER ELIZABETHAN/JACOBEAN DRAMATISTS: IF YOU CAN
PROVIDE ME LEADS, I'D BE GRATEFUL.

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Some Secondary Resources (other links on my homepage):
Anniina Jokinen's page on Middleton
Internet Shakespeare Editions
"The Triumphes of Golde: Economic Authority in the Jacobean Lord Mayor's Show"
by Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky in ELH. Click here.
"'For Show Or Useless Property': Necrophilia and The Revenger's Tragedy" by
Karin S. Coddon in ELH. Click here. (Some ELH articles require subscription.)
"Middleton's 'City Comedies' and the Influence of the Boy Theatres" by John
Oughton, Sheridan College. Click here.
Click here for George Silver's Paradoxes of Defence (1599), a pamphlet on
weaponry, put online by Greg Lindahl.
Click here for relevant pages from Braun and Schneider's The History of Costume.
The Gunpowder Plot Pages
The Elizabethan Review
The Changeling on film: 1994 (dir. Simon Curtis, st. Bob Hoskins, Hugh Grant),
1998 (dir. Marcus Thompson, United Independent Pictures Ltd.) .
The Changeling at the Knightsbridge Theatre in Pasadena, California: October
14-November 19, 2000

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If you have any suggestions or comments, please let me know. (Thank you to all
who have written me so far.) I hope you enjoy Middleton's plays as much as I do.

AND, AFTER WOLF, A DOZEN OF HIS LIKE
PROVED THERE WAS NEVER ANY TROY AT ALL,
NEITHER BESIEGERS NOR BESIEGED,--NAY, WORSE,--
NO ACTUAL HOMER, NO AUTHENTIC TEXT,
NO WARRANT FOR THE FICTION I, AS FACT,
HAD TREASURED IN MY HEART AND SOUL SO LONG--
AY, MARK YOU! AND AS FACT HELD STILL, STILL HOLD,
SPITE OF NEW KNOWLEDGE, IN MY HEART OF HEARTS
AND SOUL OF SOULS, FACT'S ESSENCE FREED AND FIXED
FROM ACCIDENTAL FANCY'S GUARDIAN SHEATH.

ROBERT BROWNING, "DEVELOPMENT"

Chris Cleary

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