Five PlaysPenguin, 1988 - 421 Seiten This collection of plays shows Middleton experimenting with the classical genres of tragedy and comedy as he develops his own individual dramatic voice. In his early comedies, characterized by an almost Terentian delight in ingenious plotting, love and marriage are merely counters in an elaborate game. But the game is governed by greed, as is the whole world of The Revenger's Tragedy, a Senecan revenge play imbued with biting, almost comical, irony. In his later plays Women Beware Women and The Changeling, Middleton gives the conventionally comic subjects of love and sex profoundly tragic treatment, revealing a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust but subject to the futility of human pretensions. |
Inhalt
Introduction | ix |
The authorship of The Revengers Tragedy | xxv |
The works of Thomas Middleton | xxix |
Further reading | xxxi |
Editorial procedure | xxxiii |
A Trick to Catch the Old One | 1 |
The Revengers Tragedy | 71 |
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside | 161 |
Women Beware Women | 239 |
The Changeling | 345 |
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ALIBIUS ALSEMERO AMBITIOSO ANTONIO bastard BEATRICE BIANCA blood brother CASTIZA Changeling COURTESAN CREDITOR DAMPIT DAVY death Devil DIAPHANTA DUCHESS DUKE Duke's e'en Enter Exeunt Exit eyes FABRITIO faith father fear FLORES fool for't FRANCISCUS gentleman gentlewoman give GOSSIP GRATIANA GUARDIANO hast heart HIPPOLITO HOARD honour HOST i'faith is't ISABELLA JASPERINO JUNIOR keep kiss LADY KIX LAMPREY LEANTIO LIVIA LOLLIO look lord LUCRE LUSSURIOSO lust madam maid marriage marry MAUDLINE Methinks Middleton MISTRESS ALLWIT MOLL mother ne'er nephew never niece NOBLE on't ONESIPHORUS play pray Prithee Q reads Revenger's Tragedy SCENE SERVANT sexual SIR LANCELOT SIR OLIVER SIR WALTER SORDIDO speak SPURIO SUPERVACUO sure sweet tell thank thee there's Thomas Middleton thou TOMAZO TOUCHWOOD SENIOR trick troth tutor Twas twill uncle VERMANDERO villain VINDICE WARD wench What's whore widow wife WITGOOD woman women Women Beware Women y'are YELLOWHAMMER
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