Thomas Middleton

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is a city comedy written c. 1613 by English Renaissance playwright Thomas Middleton. Unpublished until 1630 and long-neglected afterwards, it is now considered among the best and most characteristic Jacobean comedies. The play was originally average staged by the Lady Elizabeth's Men. The …

A Mad World, My Masters is a Jacobean stage play written by Thomas Middleton, a comedy first performed around 1605 and first published in 1608. The title is proverbial, and was used by a pamphleteer, Nicholas Breton, in 1603. The title later became the basis for the title of Stanley Kramer's 1963 film, "It's a Mad, …

A Mad World, My Masters is a Jacobean stage play written by Thomas Middleton, a comedy first performed around 1605 and first published in 1608. The title is proverbial, and was used by a pamphleteer, Nicholas Breton, in 1603. The title later became the basis for the title of Stanley Kramer's 1963 film, "It's a Mad, …

Az Athéni Timon Shakespeare legellentmondásosabb darabja. Keletkezésének idejéről bizonyosat nem tudunk, besorolása, kritikai fogadtatása rendkívül szerteágazó. Annyi bizonyos, hogy a dráma Shakespeare késői alkotói szakaszában íródott, vagyis 1601 és 1608 között. Közvetlen előzménye a Lear király lehetett, folytatása …