The English playwright Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most productive and talented playwrights of the Jacobean period. His best work was done in "city comedy"--comedy of intrigue with emphasis on the more lurid features of contemporary...

For twenty years at the beginning of the seventeenth century only a handful of men rivaled Thomas Middleton as a writer for the English stage, and now only Shakespeare and Jonson are held his superiors. He shared Jonson's satiric temper but lacked his...

Thomas G. Middleton, Jr., 84, lifelong resident of Rock Run, Valley Twp., passed away on Saturday January 6, 2007 at the Coatesville VA Hospital. He was the devoted husband of Ethel Mae Miller Middleton, with whom he shared 60 years of marriage. Born in...

Margot Heinemann's basic assertion that Thomas Middleton was sympathetic to Puritanism in the book Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Starts, is challenged by the numerous references to Puritans that are contemptuous in tone. It is likely that Heinemann...

The following survey of Middleton's works attributes to the dramatist a wide range of skills from comedic to tragic, as well as psychological penetration and clarity of vision.

In the following excerpt, the well-known ninteenth-century poet Swinburne surveys Middleton's dramatic works in an effort to establish him as a central Renaissance playwright.

Wigler investigates the three love affairs in Women Be-ware Women—between Bianca and the Duke, Isabella and Hippolito, and Leantio and Livia—in support of his contention that "the pattern of love" in the play "is ultimately something very close to incest. "