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Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) is the only contemporary of Shakespeare who created acknowledged 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 Thomas Dekker, 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 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. 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 percent of the works included have never before been annotated. A self-consciously 'federal edition', The Collected Works applies postmodernist theory to editorial practice; its unusual features are described and explained in "How to Use This Book." (View contributors and table of contents for this volume.)

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. This volume begins, accordingly, with nine original essays placing Middleton's career in the context of larger cultural patterns governing the creation, reproduction, circulation, and reception of texts. These essays are followed by textual introductions and full editorial apparatus for each work in the Collected Works, including an account of evidence for their 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. (View contributors and table of contents for this volume.)

 

The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton

Gary Taylor (General Editor), Professor, Florida State University

John Lavagnino (General Editor), Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, University of London

Associate General Editors

MacD. P. Jackson (University of Auckland)
John Jowett (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
Valerie Wayne (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Adrian Weiss (University of South Dakota)

Contributing Scholars

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 (James Madison University)
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 (Université de Paris-Sorbonne)
Coppélia Kahn (Brown University)
Ivo Kamps (University of Mississippi)
James Knowles (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
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)

The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton

Table of Contents

ALPHABETICAL CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK, by Gary Taylor

THOMAS MIDDLETON: LIVES AND AFTERLIVES, by Gary Taylor

MIDDLETON'S LONDON, by Paul S. Seaver

MIDDLETON'S THEATRES, by Scott McMillin

Collected Works 1603-1627

• The Phoenix, edited by Lawrence Danson and Ivo Kamps
• Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, News from Gravesend, text edited by Gary Taylor, annotated and introduced by Robert Maslen
• The Nightingale and the Ant; and, Father Hubburd's Tales, edited by Adrian Weiss
• Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinary; or, The Walks in Paul's, edited by Paul Yachnin
• Plato's Cap Cast at the Year 1604, edited by Paul Yachnin
• The Black Book, edited by G. B. Shand
• Thomas Dekker, Stephen Harrison, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton, The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James through the City of London, edited by Malcolm Smuts
• Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Patient Man and the Honest Whore, edited by Paul Mulholland
• Lost Plays: A Brief Account, by Doris Feldmann and Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador
• Michaelmas Term, edited by Theodore B. Leinwand
• A Trick to Catch the Old One, edited by Valerie Wayne
• A Mad World, My Masters, text edited and introduced by Peter Saccio, annotated by Celia R. Daileader
• A Yorkshire Tragedy; or, One of the Four Plays in One, called All's One, edited by Stanley Wells
• William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton, The Life of Timon of Athens, text edited and annotated by John Jowett, introduced by Sharon O'Dair
• The Puritan Widow; or, The Puritan; or, The Widow of Watling Street, edited by Donna B. Hamilton
• The Revenger's Tragedy, edited by MacD. P. Jackson
• Your Five Gallants, text edited by Ralph Cohen and John Jowett, annotated and introduced by Ralph Cohen
• Andraeas Loeaechius, translated and adapted by Thomas Middleton, Sir Robert Sherley his Entertainment in Cracovia, text edited and annotated by Jerzy Limon, introduced by Daniel J. Vitkus
• The Two Gates of Salvation; or, The Marriage of the Old and New Testament; or, God's Parliament House, text edited and annotated by Paul Mulholland, introduced by Lori Anne Ferrell
• Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Bloody Banquet, adapted for the Cockpit, introduced and annotated by Julia Gasper, text edited by Julia Gasper and Gary Taylor
• Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl; or, Moll Cutpurse, edited by Coppélia Kahn
• No Wit/Help like a Woman's, or, The Almanac, edited by John Jowett
• The Lady's Tragedy ["The Second Maiden's Tragedy"]: Parallel Texts, edited by Julia Briggs
• A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, edited by Linda Woodbridge
• The Manner of his Lordship's Entertainment, edited by David M. Bergeron
• The Triumphs of Truth, edited by David M. Bergeron; with "An account by Alexis Ziuzin", edited by Maija Jansson and Nikolai Rogozhin, and translated by Paul Bushkovitch
• William Rowley and Thomas Middleton, Wit at Several Weapons, edited by Michael Dobson
• Masque of Cupids: A Brief Account, by M. T. Jones-Davies and Ton Hoenselaars
• More Dissemblers Besides Women, edited by John Jowett
• The Widow, text edited and introduced by Gary Taylor, annotated by Michael Warren and Gary Taylor
• The Witch, edited by Marion O'Connor
• William Shakespeare, adapted by Thomas Middleton, The Tragedy of Macbeth, text edited by Gary Taylor, introduced by Inga-Stina Ewbank
• Civitatis Amor, edited by David M. Bergeron
• William Rowley and Thomas Middleton, A Fair Quarrel, edited by Suzanne Gossett
• The Triumphs of Honour and Industry, text edited by David M. Bergeron, annotated and introduced by Kate D. Levin; with "The Relation of Horatio Busino", translated and annotated by Kate D. Levin
• The Owl's Almanac, edited by Neil Rhodes
• The Peacemaker, text edited and annotated by Paul Mulholland, introduced by Susan Dwyer Amussen
• William Rowley, Thomas Middleton, and Thomas Heywood, The Old Law, edited by Jeffrey Masten
• Masque of Heroes; or, The Inner Temple Masque, text edited and annotated by Jerzy Limon, introduced by James Knowles
• Hengist, King of Kent; or, The Mayor of Queenborough, edited by Grace Ioppolo
• The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity, text edited and annotated by David M. Bergeron, introduced by Lawrence Manley
• Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The World Tossed at Tennis A Courtly Masque, edited by Ted McGee
• Honourable Entertainments and An Invention, edited by Tony Parr
• Women Beware Women, edited by John Jowett
• The Sun in Aries, text edited and annotated by David M. Bergeron, introduced by Michael Berlin
• William Shakespeare, adapted by Thomas Middleton, Measure for Measure, edited by John Jowett
• Thomas Middleton and John Webster, Anything for a Quiet Life, edited by Leslie Thomson
• William Rowley and Thomas Middleton, The Changeling, text edited and annotated by Douglas Bruster, introduced by Annabel Patterson
• The Nice Valour; or, The Passionate Madman, introduced and annotated by Susan Wiseman, text edited by Gary Taylor and Susan Wiseman
• The Triumphs of Honour and Virtue, text edited and annotated by David M. Bergeron, introduced by Ania Loomba
• Thomas Dekker, John Ford, Thomas Middleton, and William Rowley, The Spanish Gypsy, text edited and annotated by Gary Taylor, introduced by Suzanne Gossett
• Thomas Middleton and Anthony Munday, The Triumphs of Integrity with The Triumphs of the Golden Fleece, edited by David M. Bergeron
• A Game at Chess, edited by Gary Taylor
  An Early Version
  A Later Version
• Occasional Poems (1619?25), edited by Gary Taylor
• Lost London Pageants for Charles I: A Brief Account, by Gary Taylor
• The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity, text edited and annotated by David M. Bergeron, introduced by Gary Taylor
• Lost Political Prose 1620-1627: A Brief Account, by Thomas Cogswell

Juvenilia 1597-1602

• The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased, text edited and annotated by G. B. Shand, introduced by Debora Shuger
• Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires, edited by Wendy Wall
• The Ghost of Lucrece, edited by G. B. Shand
• "Simon Smellknave" (pseud.), adapted by Thomas Middleton, The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets, edited by Swapan Chakravorty

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