Women Beware Women, and Other Plays

Middleton Thomas
Women Beware Women, and Other Plays



Издательство: Oxford University Press
Жанр: Oxford University Press

Качество: Хорошее
Страниц: 526
Формат: pdf, fb2, epub

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; and A Game at Chess was the single most popular play of the whole Shakespearean era, a satirical expose of Jesuit plotting and Anglo-Spanish politics which played to pacifist houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it. All the play texts are newly edited with informative annotation.