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Winner of the MLA's Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition 2007-2008 / Winner of 2011 Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Award
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works
Edited by Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino
2,016 pages
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79 illustrations, 1 map
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246x189mm
978-0-19-818569-7
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Hardback
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22 November 2007
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- First critical edition ever of one of Shakespeare's most important contemporaries
- Includes all Middleton's works in one volume, for the first time
- Provides texts in modern spelling and punctuation, with critical introductions, notes on the page, and many illustrations
- Authoritative texts based on twenty years of original research by an international team of more than 60 leading scholars
- Includes works by major Renaissance playwrights in which Middleton had a hand: including Jonson, Webster, and Shakespeare (Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Measure for Measure)
- Arranges the works in the order in which they are written
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - 'our other Shakespeare' - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created lasting masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office hit of early modern London (the unique history play A Game at Chess). His range extends beyond these traditional genres to tragicomedies, masques, pageants, pamphlets, epigrams, and Biblical and political commentaries, written alone or in collaboration with Shakespeare, Webster, Dekker, Ford, Heywood, Rowley, and others. Compared by critics to Aristophanes and Ibsen, Racine and Joe Orton, he has influenced writers as diverse as Aphra Behn and T. S. Eliot. Though
repeatedly censored in his own time, he 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 more than sixty 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. It is the first edition of Middleton's works since 1886. 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. 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.Readership: Students and scholars of Middleton and English Renaissance drama; theatregoers.
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Edited by Gary Taylor, George Matthew Edgar Professor of English and Director of the program in the History of Text Technologies at Florida State University, and John Lavagnino, Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing at King's College London Contributors:
<b>Associate General Editors</b>
MacDonald P. Jackson (University of Auckland)
John Jowett (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
Valerie Wayne (University of Hawai`i at Manoa)
Adrian Weiss (Independent Scholar)
<b>Contributing Scholars</b>
Susan Dwyer Amussen (Graduate College, The Union Institute)
David M. Bergeron (University of Kansas)
Michael Berlin (Centre for Metropolitan History, London)
Julia Briggs (De Montfort University, Leicester)
Douglas Bruster (University of Texas at Austin)
Paul Bushkovitch (Yale University)
Swapan Chakravorty (Jadavpur University)
Thomas Cogswell (University of California, Riverside)
Ralph Cohen (Mary Baldwin College)
Celia R. Daileader (Florida State University)
Lawrence Danson (Princeton University)
Michael Dobson (University of Surrey Roehampton)
Inga-Stina Ewbank (University of Leeds)
Doris Feldmann (University of
Erlangen-Nurnberg)
Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University)
Julia Gasper (Open University)
Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicago)
Donna B. Hamilton (University of Maryland, College Park)
Ton Hoenselaars (Universiteit Utrecht)
R. V. Holdsworth (Victoria University of Manchester)
Grace Ioppolo (University of Reading)
Maija Jansson (Yale University)
M. T. Jones-Davies (Universite de Paris-Sorbonne)
Coppelia Kahn (Brown University)
Ivo Kamps (University of Mississippi)
James Knowles (University of Keele)
Theodore B. Leinwand (University of Maryland, College Park)
Kate D. Levin (City College of New York)
Jerzy Limon (Uniwersytet Gdan'ski)
Ania Loomba (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Lawrence Manley (Yale University)
Robert Maslen (University of Glasgow)
Jeffrey Masten (Northwestern University)
Ted McGee (St. Jerome's University)
Scott McMillin (Cornell University)
Paul Mulholland (University of Guelph)
Marion O'Connor (University of Kent at Canterbury)
Sharon O'Dair (University of Alabama)
Tony Parr (University of Western Cape, South Africa)
Annabel Patterson (Yale University)
Bryan Reynolds (University of California, Irvine)
Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews)
Nikolai Rogozhin (Russian State Archive of
Ancient Documents)
Andrew Sabol (Brown University)
Peter Saccio (Dartmouth College)
Paul S. Seaver (Stanford University)
G. B. Shand (Glendon College, York University)
Debora K. Shuger (University of California, Los Angeles)
Malcolm Smuts (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Leslie Thomson (University of Toronto)
Daniel J. Vitkus (Florida State University)
Wendy Wall (Northwestern University)
Michael Warren (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Stanley Wells (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)
Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Linda
Woodbridge (Pennsylvania State University)
Paul Yachnin (McGill University)
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"The Collected Works is, of course a prodigious achievement that only someone with Taylor's infectious energy and obsessive determination could have brought off." - Michael Neill, London Review of Books "fine introductory essays" - Plays International "The Oxford Middleton is a monumental achievement. Gary Taylor and his team of scholars have managed to do for Thomas Middleton what Heminges and Condell did for Shakespeare in the 1623 First Folio: they've collected a great playwright's work in a landmark edition, one that enables us to appreciate afresh an extraordinary literary career. Taken together, The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton and its companion volume Thomas Middleton and Early Modern
Textual Culture, provide an essential guide to matters at the heart of the English literary world in the early seventeenth century, from authorship and collaboration to censorship, civic pageantry, and the London book trade." - James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare and Professor of English, Columbia University "a monumental work of scholarship" - Jonathan Bate, Times Literary Supplement "It is not, I think, overstating the case to say that the release of this edition feels epochal, and the sense of recognition at what it has added, as well as what it will inspire over the ensuing decades, is already palpable. The Oxford Middleton is a truly momentous work, and it is now in the hands of you, the Great
Variety of Readers." - Will Sharpe, The Shakespeare Bookshop Newsletter "All of us who care deeply about the history of English drama welcome with great enthusiasm and excitement the publication of the Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, a major achievement in textual scholarship that represents the collective expertise and critical wisdom of scholars from all over the world. Gary Taylor and his many collaborators have given us a new and remarkably versatile Thomas Middleton-a great tragic playwright, a brilliant creator of sly and cynical urban comedies, a thoroughly gifted man of the theater and citizen of London. With this massive collected edition, the history of English drama is much more complete and we can hope for many more professional productions of
these neglected plays." - Gail Paster, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library "It is hard to exaggerate the scale of the Oxford Middleton particularly since this is the kind of scholarship which is--in its diversity and eclecticism--designed to open up debate rather than close it off. It is a colossal achievement representing a decisive expansion of Renaissance studies which will percolate throughout scholarship and teaching. But what is, perhaps, most exciting, is that the collection must surely generate a rediscovery of these eminently stageable plays in the theatre." - Andrew James Hartley, Editor, Shakespeare Bulletin "The publication of The Complete Works of Middleton will be a major event for all those who care about the theatre of
Shakespeare's time. The scholarship is meticulous, the commentary is fascinating and the international team of experts displays the field of Renaissance Drama studies at its finest. In modern times, productions of The Changeling and Women Beware Women have shown the dark side of sex and power that Shakespeare touched on but never fully explored. The Complete Works now shows us the full range of Middleton's talent for comedy and social drama and, controversially, the full extent of his collaboration with and development of Shakespeare's plays." - Kathleen E. McLuskie, The Shakespeare Institute "Few editorial projects have been as eagerly anticipated as the Oxford Middleton, which will utterly transform how we understand early modern drama, both in the classroom
and in our research. As with Shakespeare, Gary Taylor and his team have set a new gold standard for textual editing and interpretive criticism, leaping from the 19th century to the 21st - finally an edition that captures Middleton's tremendous accomplishments." - Henry Turner, Rutgers University, New Jersey, author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630 (Oxford, 2006) "Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works [is] the first time all his plays, poems and manuscripts have appeared in a single volume. The timing of this 2,016-page monument couldn't be better. Academic interest in Middleton has burgeoned since the 1900s as scholars have discovered that the more time passes, the more relevant his work becomes." -
Jumana Farouky, TIME "formidable achievement" - The Journal of Theatre Survey
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Alphabetical Contents
Index of Titles by Genre
List of Illustrations
Gary Taylor: How to Use This Book
Gary Taylor: Thomas Middleton: Lives and Afterlives
Paul S. Seaver: Middleton's London
Scott McMillin: Middleton's Theatres
Collected Works 1603-1627
The Phoenix
News from Gravesend: Sent to Nobody
The Nightingale and the Ant; and, Father Hubburd's Tales
The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinary; or, The Walks in Paul's
Plato's Cap cast at the year 1604
The Black Book
The Patient Man and the Honest Whore
The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James through the City of LondonThe Patient Man and the Honest Whore
Doris Feldmann and Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador: Lost Plays: A Brief Account
Michaelmas Term
A Trick to Catch the Old One
A Mad World, My Masters
A Yorkshire Tragedy; or, One of the Four Plays in One, called All's One
The Life of Timon of Athens
The Puritan Widow; or, The Puritan; or, The Widow of Watling Street
The Revenger's Tragedy
Your Five Gallants
Sir Robert Sherley his Entertainment in Cracovia
The Two Gates of Salvation; or, The Marriage of the Old and New Testament; or, God's Parliament House
The Bloody Banquet: A Tragedy
The Roaring Girl; or, Moll Cutpurse
No Wit/Help like a Woman's; or, The Almanac
The Lady's Tragedy ['The Second Maiden's Tragedy']: Parallel Texts
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
The Manner of his Lordship's Entertainment
The Triumphs of Truth
Wit at Several Weapons
Masque of Cupids
More Dissemblers Besides Women
The Widow
The Witch
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Civitatis Amor
A Fair Quarrel
The Triumphs of Honour and Industry
The Owl's Almanac
The Peacemaker; or, Great Britain's Blessing
An/The Old Law
Masque of Heroes; or, The Inner Temple Masque
Hengist, King of Kent; or, The Mayor of Queenborough
The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity
The World Tossed at Tennis [A Courtly Masque]
Honourable Entertainments and An Invention
Women, Beware Women: A Tragedy
The Sun in Aries
Measure for Measure
Anything for a Quiet Life
The Changeling
The Nice Valour; or, The Passionate Madman
The Triumphs of Honour and Virtue
The Spanish Gypsy
The Triumphs of Integrity with The Triumphs of the Golden Fleece
A Game at Chesse: An Early Form
A Game at Chess: A Later Form
Occasional Poems, 1619-25
Gary Taylor: Lost Pageant for Charles I: A Brief Account
The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity
Thomas Cogswell: Lost Political Prose, 1620-7: A Brief Account
Juvenilia 1597-1602
The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased
Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires
The Ghost of Lucrece
The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets
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