Five Plays - Thomas Middleton

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 Revengers Tragedy Originally Ascribed To Cyril Tourneur A Revenge Play Infused With Sardonic Wit And Biting Irony.