Four Plays: Women Beware Women, The Changeling, The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Informationen zum Autor William C. Carroll is Professor of English at Boston University. He is a General Editor of the New Mermaids Series. Among his publications are editions of Love's Labour's Lost ! The Two Gentlemen of Verona ! and Macbeth ! as well as Fat King! Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare. Klappentext An anthology of four Thomas Middleton plays in the New Mermaid Series! brought together with an introduction and commentary notes by William Carroll! which explores the plays' context! culture! politics and themes. Zusammenfassung An anthology of four Thomas Middleton plays in the New Mermaid Series, brought together with an introduction and commentary notes by William Carroll, which explores the plays' context, culture, politics and themes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction! Women Beware Women ! The Changeling ! The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Auteur
William C. Carroll is Professor of English Emeritus **at Boston University, USA. Thomas Middleton was a prolific and successful English Jacobean playwright and poet. A contemporary of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Middleton wrote over 30 plays including A Mad World, My Masters which was first performed in 1606.

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This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Thomas Middleton's plays - Women Beware Women; The Changeling; The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - with a new introduction by William Carroll, examining the plays in the context of early modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as their language, characters and themes. On-page commentary notes guide students to a better understanding and combine to make this an indispensable student edition ideal for study and classroom use from A Level upwards.

Résumé
An anthology of four Thomas Middleton plays in the New Mermaid Series, brought together with an introduction and commentary notes by William Carroll, which explores the plays' context, culture, politics and themes.

Contenu

Introduction, Women Beware Women, The Changeling, The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside