T. S. Eliot said of the Jacobean dramatist Thomas Middleton (1580
1627) that 'he wrote one tragedy which more than any other play
except those of Shakespeare has a profound and permanent moral
value and horror': Middleton has increasingly been recognised as
one of the most important, if not the most important, Jacobean
dramatist after Shakespeare himself. This volume contains The
Changeling (of which Eliot gave so high an estimate), together with
Middleton's other surviving tragedy, Women Beware Women, his best
comedy, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, and a more light-hearted early
play, A Mad World, My Masters. Though Middleton is typical of many
university-trained writers of the period who eked out a living in
popular entertainment, his work has a cold satiric stance, a grimly
determinist flavour and a savage economy which make it unique. He
wrote plays for the boys' companies in the early 1600s and later
for Shakespeare's own company, the King's Men, but seems never to
have established himself as more than a jobbing dramatist.
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