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A mad world, my masters

Michaelmas term ; A trick to catch the old one ; No wit, no help like a woman's

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Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciting period of theatrical activity in the history of English drama.

Best known for his tragedies, he also wrote many successful comedies of city life. This volume brings together four of the finest: A Mad World, My Masters, Michaelmas Term, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's. The first three plays, written between 1604 and 1606, are witty and rambunctious satires on the predatory life of the aspiring London citizen. Sex and money are the characters' obsessions; their caustic exposure Middleton's.

In the later play, No Wit (1612), satire shades into romance, prose into verse. Together the four plays reveal the range and exuberance of Middleton's writing for the comic stage.

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A mad world, my masters
1998, Globe Education and Theatre Arts Books/Routledge
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A mad world, my masters.: Edited by Standish Henning.
1965, University of Nebraska Press
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1965, University of Nebraska Press
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1608, Printed by H.B. for Walter Burre
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-378).

Published in
Oxford, New York
Series
The world's classics
Genre
Drama.
Other Titles
Mad world, my masters ; Michaelmas term ; A trick to catch the old one ; No wit, no help like a woman's, Mad world, my masters and other plays

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Dewey Decimal Class
822/.3
Library of Congress
PR2712 .T39 1995, PR2712.T39 1995

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xxvi, 389 p. ;
Number of pages
389

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OL1272963M
ISBN 10
0192822551
LCCN
95004309
OCLC/WorldCat
32086512
Library Thing
1230907
Goodreads
1085692

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