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

Chapter 1: THE WORKS OF THOMAS MIDDLETON.
By Thomas Middleton
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This volume assembles comedies, masques, poetic paraphrase, and shorter dramatic and satirical pieces that probe marriage, money, and social pretension. Central comic plots hinge on secrecy, swapped identities, and servant cunning to expose mercenary matches and restore rightful unions; other pieces stage allegorical pageants and courtly entertainments celebrating virtues, while lyric and satirical miscellany includes a paraphrase of biblical wisdom, elegiac notices of actors, and critical or playful addresses to contemporaries. The tone alternates between sharp urban satire and ornate masque spectacle, with recurring emphasis on deception, theatricality, and the negotiation of social rank.

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

Author: Thomas Middleton

Thomas Dekker

William Rowley

Editor: Alexander Dyce

Release date: April 14, 2025 [eBook #75607]

Language: English

Original publication: London: 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 5 have been copied from that volume for straightfoward reference, and are included in the transcribers’s endnotes.

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. V.
CONTAINING
  • NO WIT
    HELP     LIKE A WOMAN’S.
  • THE INNER-TEMPLE MASQUE.
  • THE WORLD TOST AT TENNIS.
  • PART OF THE ENTERTAINMENT TO KING JAMES.
  • THE TRIUMPHS OF TRUTH.
  • CIVITATIS AMOR.
  • THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE AND ANTIQUITY.
  • THE SUN IN ARIES.
  • THE TRIUMPHS OF INTEGRITY.
  • THE TRIUMPHS OF HEALTH AND PROSPERITY.
  • THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON PARAPHRASED.
  • MICRO-CYNICON.
  • ON THE DEATH OF BURBAGE.
  • TO WEBSTER, ON THE DUCHESS OF MALFI.
  • THE BLACK BOOK.
  • FATHER HUBBURD’S TALES.
  • APPENDIX. THE TRIUMPHS OF HONOUR AND INDUSTRY.
  • INDEX TO THE NOTES.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY ROBSON, LEVEY, AND FRANKLYN,
46 St. Martin’s Lane.
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. V.
LONDON:
EDWARD LUMLEY, CHANCERY LANE.
1840.