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University of Geneva. To T. S. Eliot, Middleton was the author of ‘‘six or seven great plays.’’1 It turns out that he is more than that. The dramatic canon as defined by the Oxford Middleton—under the general editorship of Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, leading a team of seventy-five contributors—con-sists of eighteen sole-authored ...
Thomas Middleton, nació en Londres, el 18 de abril de 1580. Trayectoria profesional. Fue un dramaturgo inglés. Colaboró, entre otros, con Th. Dekker y, sobre todo, con W. Rowley. Sus comedias de costumbres y sentimentales gozaron de gran popularidad (La casta doncella de Cheapside, 1612; Mujeres, guardaos de las mujeres, 1621).
Thomas Middleton ( London, 1580. április 28. – London, 1627. július 4.) Jakab-kori angol drámaíró, költő. Az angol reneszánsz korszak egyik legkiemelkedőbb alakja. Történelmi drámái, komédiái és tragédiái egyforma sikereket értek el, amivel kiemelkedett kortársai közül.
Thomas Middleton is one of the most prolific English dramatists of all time. Along with Ben Jonson and John Fletcher, he established himself as a celebrated playwright of the Jacobean era. (Many contemporary critics consider Middleton to be the author of The Revenger's Tragedy , although others adhere to the historical consensus that Cyril Tourneur wrote the play.)
25 de oct. de 2017 · Introduction. The publication of Thomas Middleton’s Collected Works by Oxford University Press in 2007 is an important marker of his rise in critical esteem. Near the start of the 20th century, T. S. Eliot said that the playwright had no point of view. In the intervening period, however, Middleton’s reputation underwent considerable revision.
Colaboró con Thomas Dekker en las comedias de The Honest Whore (Part I) (1604), The Family of Love (1603-1607) y The Roaring Girl (1610). Su obra maestra es A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1611). Estas comedias expresan los vicios burgueses del Londres de su época en tono satírico.
Five Plays. Thomas Middleton. Penguin, 1988 - Drama - 421 pages. 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 ...
