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the oxford middleton
Thomas Middleton
(1580–1627)—‘our other Shakespeare’—is the only other Renais-
sance playwright who created acknowledged masterpieces of comedy, tragedy, and
history; his revolutionary English history play,
A Game at Chess,
was also the greatest
box-office hit of early modern London. His achievements extend beyond these traditional
genres to tragicomedies, masques, pageants, pamphlets, epigrams, and Biblical and polit-
ical commentaries, written alone or in collaboration with Thomas Dekker, John Ford,
Thomas Heywood, William Rowley, William Shakespeare, John Webster, and others.
Compared by critics to Aristophanes and Ibsen, Racine and Joe Orton, he has influenced
writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, Anthony Trollope, and T. S. Eliot. Though repeatedly
censored in his own time, Middleton has since come to be particularly admired for his
representations of the intertwined pursuits of sex, money, power, and God.
The Oxford Middleton,
prepared by seventy-five scholars from a dozen countries, follows
the precedent of The Oxford Shakespeare in being published in two volumes, an innovative
but accessible
Collected Works
and a comprehensive scholarly
Companion.
Though closely
connected, each volume can be used independently of the other.
The Collected Works
brings together for the first time in a single volume all the
works currently attributed to Middleton. The texts are printed in modern spelling and
punctuation, with critical introductions and foot-of-the-page commentaries; they are
arranged in chronological order, with a special section of Juvenilia. The volume is
introduced by essays on Middleton’s life and reputation, on early modern London, and
on the varied theatres of the English Renaissance. Extensively illustrated, it incorporates
much new information on Middleton’s life, canon, texts, and contexts; twenty per cent of
the works included have never before been annotated. A self-consciously ‘federal edition’,
The Collected Works
applies contemporary theories about the nature of literature and the
history of the book to editorial practice; its unusual features are described and explained
in ‘How to Use This Book’ (p. 18).
Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to The Collected
Works.
Because Middleton is more representative than any of his contemporaries of
the full range of textual practices in early modern England, his works provide an ideal
focus for understanding the history of the book, and its relation to the larger history of
culture, in this pivotal period. The
Companion
begins, accordingly, with eleven original
essays placing Middleton’s career in the context of larger cultural patterns governing the
creation, reproduction, regulation, circulation, and reception of texts. These essays are
followed by a textual introduction and full editorial apparatus for each work, including
an account of evidence for its authorship and date of composition. This combination of
detail and context provides a foundation for future studies both of Middleton and of early
modern culture.
http://thomasmiddleton.org
Facetious Middleton, thy witty muse
Hath pleasèd all that books or men peruse.
Wit’s Recreations
(1640)
THOMAS
MIDDLETON
THE COLLECTED
WORKS
General Editors
GARY TAYLOR AND JOHN LAVAGNINO
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VALERIE WAYNE, AND ADRIAN WEISS
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ISBN 978–0–19–922588–0 (Set)
ISBN 978–0–19–818569–7 (Complete Works)
ISBN 978–0–19–818570–3 (Textual Companion)
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