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Women Beware Women, and Other Plays

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This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies outside of Shakespeare -- studies in lust, power, violence, and self-delusive psychology; "A Game at Chess" was the single most popular play of the whole Shakespearean era, a satirical exposé of Jesuit plotting and Anglo-Spanish politics which played tp pacifist houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it.

The best-value collection available with the most officially up-to-date introduction; all the play texts are newly edited with richly informative annotation.

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Oxford University Press
0199538921 / 9780199538928
Paperback / softback
822.3
26/02/2009
United Kingdom
English
xlviii, 477 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Cover title. Originally published: 1999. Contents: A chaste maid in Cheapside -- Women beware women -- The changeling -- A game of chess. Cover title.