Book by Thomas Middleton, William Rowley

A Fair Quarrel (New Mermaid Series)

Literature & Fiction

William Rowley

Thomas, Middleton

Dramas & Plays

Ernest Benn Ltd.

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The changeling

Ernest Benn

"The next good mood I find my father in, I'll get him quite discarded"
With these chillingly offhand words, Beatrice-Joanna, the spoilt daughter of a powerful nobleman, plots to get rid of the family servant who has crossed her once too often. The Changeling remains one of the most compelling tragedies from the 17th century. Exposing the vexed relationshipbetween servants and masters, setting notions of 'change' against the revelation of psychological 'secrets' as ways of explaining human behaviour, and exploring the idea of love as a 'tame madness', the play reveals the terrifying consequences of ungoverned sexual appetite and betrayal. Despite its seemingly domestic focus, The Changeling has much to reveal about the gathering social and political tensions that were to plunge England into a destructive civil war within twenty years of its first performance. 
This new student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the authors, date and sources, theme, critical interpretation and stage history.
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The Changeling (New Mermaids)

Methuen Drama

A changeling is a fickle person, a waverer, a person posing as another person, or an idiot. The Changeling portrays them all. The play interchanges not only characters, but authors, too. Written in 1622, it is one of the most successful collaborations in the history of the theater.

The Changeling

Manchester University Press

A changeling is a fickle person, a waverer, a person posing as another person, or an idiot. The Changeling portrays them all. The play interchanges not only characters, but authors, too. Written in 1622, it is one of the most successful collaborations in the history of the theater.
Two plots, each the work of one playwright, interweave and collide. Words, lines, episodes, and scenes mix double meanings. Rowley's tragic plot combines hypocricy and love. Middleton's comic plot mixes madness and educated fools. Deceits tie things together, suspicions tear them apart.

The Changeling (Regents Renaissance Drama Series)

University Of Nebraska Press

WITCH EDMONTON

John Ford

Thomas, Dekker

Dissertations-G

The Old Law, or A New Way to Please You is a seventeenth-century tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger. It was first published in 1656, but is generally thought to have been written about four decades earlier.  The first edition  The play first appeared in a badly-printed 1656 quarto issued by the bookseller Edward Archer (his shop was "at the sign of the Adam and Eve"), with the three dramatists' names on the title page. Scholars have little doubt about the general accuracy of the attribution; the doubt that does exist centers on the role of Massinger, since the play shows many typical signs of being a Middleton/Rowley collaboration. "Probably all critics are sure of the presence of Middleton and Rowley, but Massinger's contribution has been difficult to trace." David Lake, in his study of attribution problems in the Middleton canon, holds that Massinger's share consisted only of a light revision, and that signs of his hand are strongest in the first half of the single scene in Act V, the trial scene.

The Old Law (Garland English Texts: Number 4)

Garland Publishing

All's Lost by Lust

British & Irish

Alioth Press

An amazing discovery, unperformed since its first performance 400 years ago. A play about a law to have men over 80 and women over 60 put down as no longer useful to society, written in collaboration by three of the most active Jacobean playwrights.

A New Way to Please You (RSC Classics)

Phillip Massinger

Nick Hern Books

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