Thomas Middleton

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

City comedy of illicit sexuality and pregnancy in early modern London

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Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton

Middleton was one of the most versatile and darkly ironic of Jacobean playwrights, excelling in both city comedy and tragedy. Women Beware Women and The Changeling are among the finest tragedies of the period.

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