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The works of Thomas Middleton, Volume 4 (of 5)

Chapter 1: THE WORKS OF THOMAS MIDDLETON.
By Thomas Middleton
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This volume gathers six stage plays by a Jacobean dramatist, spanning bawdy city comedy and dark domestic tragedy. Several pieces lampoon London mercantile life and the bargaining of marriages, using stock characters, farcical misunderstandings, and satirical wit. Other plays move into psychological intensity, depicting obsessive desire, deceit, and violent consequences within intimate settings. Recurring concerns include social ambition, gender and power, the corrupting force of money, and the tension between public reputation and private vice. Dramatic technique blends brisk, colloquial dialogue and comic set-pieces with moments of poetic rhetoric and moral ambiguity, offering audiences both entertainment and unsettling ethical dilemmas.

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Title: The works of Thomas Middleton, Volume 4 (of 5)

Author: Thomas Middleton

Thomas Dekker

William Rowley

Editor: Alexander Dyce

Release date: April 6, 2025 [eBook #75606]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Edward Lumley, 1840

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Transcriber’s Note:

Footnotes have been collected at the end of each play, and are linked for ease of reference.

In Volume 1 of this work, the editor provided a section of ‘Addendum and Corrigiendum’, with errata of the following volumes, including this. The errata for Volume 4 have been copied from that volume for straightfoward reference, and are included in the transcribers’s endnotes. Key words in the text which are annotated by the Errata are highlighted, and serve as links to the relevant note.

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.

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THE WORKS
OF
THOMAS MIDDLETON.

VOL. IV.
CONTAINING
  • A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE.
  • THE SPANISH GIPSY.
  • THE CHANGELING.
  • A GAME AT CHESS.
  • ANY THING FOR A QUIET LIFE.
  • WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY LEVEY, ROBSON, AND FRANKLYN,
46 St. Martin’s Lane.

[Illustration: To face Title to Vol. 4. Eng’d by F. W. Fairholt. ]

THE WORKS
OF
THOMAS MIDDLETON,
Now first collected,
WITH
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR,
AND
NOTES,
BY
THE REVEREND ALEXANDER DYCE.
IN FIVE VOLUMES.
VOL. IV.
LONDON:
EDWARD LUMLEY, CHANCERY LANE.
1840.