SOURCE: "Thomas Middleton," in The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists: Thomas Middleton, edited by Havelock Ellis, 1887. Reprint by Scholarly Press, 1969, pp. vii-xlii.
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.
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