Middleton's dramaturgy : a study of the major comedies
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"Throughout a career covering most of the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Thomas Middleton produced a body of work remarkable for both its quantity and variety. Those features of Middleton's work are nowhere more evident than in the comedies, which appear at intervals throughout the entire period, beginning in about 1602 and ending with the staging of Game at Chess in August, 1624. Criticism has seldom taken full account of Middleton's remarkable achievement in comedy. Usually, studies of the comedies have been limited to an analysis of social and moral issues or have been limited to a particular group of plays, Middleton's comedies of London life. The present study attempts to avoid these restrictions, first, by stressing the art of Middleton's comedies and, secondly, by dealing with the best of the comedies, whether or not the setting happens to be London. The early satiric comedies are excluded as inferior to the best that Middleton wrote."--Page 2.
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