# Five Plays

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- Authors: [Thomas Middleton](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-middleton)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-10-26

## Description

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.

## Editions

### Five Plays

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-219-0
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2006-10-26
- Language: en_GB