Thomas Middleton (Londres, 18 de abril de 1580 – Newington Butts, 4 de julho de 1627) foi um dramaturgo inglês do teatro isabelino.J. R. Mulryne, Thomas Middleton

Reputação O trabalho de Middleton tem sido elogiado por críticos literários, entre eles Algernon Charles Swinburne e T. S. Eliot.. Este último achava que Middleton perdia apenas para Shakespeare."Thomas Middleton", The Times Literary Supplement, 30 June 1927, pp. 445–446 (unsigned).

As peças de Middleton foram encenadas ao longo do século XX e no século XXI, cada década oferecendo mais produções do que a anterior. Mesmo algumas obras menos familiares dele foram encenadas: A Fair Quarrel no National Theatre e The Old Law pela Royal Shakespeare Company. The Changeling foi adaptado para o cinema várias vezes. A tragédia Women Beware Women continua sendo uma das favoritas dos palcos. The Revenger's Tragedy foi adaptado para o filme de Alex Cox, Revengers Tragedy, cujos créditos iniciais atribuem a autoria da peça a Middleton.

Peças

The Phoenix (1603–1604) The Honest Whore, Part 1, a city comedy (1604), Co-escrito com Thomas Dekker Michaelmas Term, a city comedy, (1604) All's Well That Ends Well (1604–5); A Trick to Catch the Old One, (1605) A Mad World, My Masters, (1605) A Yorkshire Tragedy, (1605); Timon of Athens a tragedy (1605–1606) The Puritan (1606) The Revenger's Tragedy (1606). Your Five Gallants, (1607) The Bloody Banquet (1608–1609); Co-escrito com Dekker The Roaring Girl, (1611); Co-escrito com Dekker No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's, (1611) The Second Maiden's Tragedy, a tragedy (1611); A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, (1613) Wit at Several Weapons, (1613) More Dissemblers Besides Women, (1614) The Widow (1615–16) The Witch, (1616) A Fair Quarrel, (1616). Co-escrito com Rowley The Old Law, (1618–19). Co-escrito com Rowley Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough, (1620) Women Beware Women, (1621) Measure for Measure (1603–4) Anything for a Quiet Life, (1621). Co-escrito com John Webster The Changeling, (1622). Co-escrito com Rowley The Nice Valour (1622). The Spanish Gypsy,(1623). A Game at Chess, (1624).

Outros trabalhos de palco

The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James Through the City of London (1603–4). Co-escrito com Dekker, Stephen Harrison e Ben Jonson The Manner of his Lordship's Entertainment Civitas Amor The Triumphs of Truth (1613) The Triumphs of Honour and Industry (1617) The Masque of Heroes, or, The Inner Temple Masque (1619) The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity (1619) The World Tossed at Tennis (1620). Co-escrito com William Rowley. Honourable Entertainments (1620–1) An Invention (1622) The Sun in Aries (1621) The Triumphs of Honour and Virtue (1622) The Triumphs of Integrity with The Triumphs of the Golden Fleece (1623) The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity (1626)

Poesia

The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased (1597) Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires (1599) The Ghost of Lucrece (1600) Burbage epitaph (1619) Bolles epitaph (1621) Duchess of Malfi (1623) St James (1623) To the King (1624)

Prosa

The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets (1601) News from Gravesend, Co-escrito com Dekker (1603) The Nightingale and the Ant (1604) The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinary (1604), Co-escrito com Dekker Plato's Cap Cast at the Year 1604 (1604) The Black Book (1604) Sir Robert Sherley his Entertainment in Cracovia (1609) The Two Gates of Salvation (1609), ou The Marriage of the Old and New Testament The Owl's Almanac (1618) The Peacemaker (1618)

Fontes

Anthony Covatta, "Thomas Middleton's City Comedies." Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press, 1973 Barbara Jo Baines, The Lust Motif in the Plays of Thomas Middleton. Salzburg, 1973

Pier Paolo Frassinelli, "Realism, Desire, and Reification: Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside." Early Modern Literary Studies 8 (2003) Kenneth Friedenreich, ed., "Accompaninge the players": Essays Celebrating Thomas Middleton, 1580–1980 Margot Heinemann. Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama Under the Early Stuarts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980 Herbert Jack Heller. Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Press, 2000 Ben Jonson. The Staple of News. Londres, 1692. Holloway e-text Bryan Loughrey and Neil Taylor. "Introduction." In Thomas Middleton, Five Plays. Bryan Loughrey e Neil Taylor, eds. Penguin, 1988 Jane Milling and Peter Thomson, eds. The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 Mary Beth Rose. The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988

Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Age of Shakespeare. Nova York: Harpers, 1908. Gutenberg e-text Ceri Sullivan, 'Thomas Middleton's View of Public Utility', Review of English Studies 58 (2007), pp. 160–74 Ceri Sullivan, The Rhetoric of Credit. Merchants in Early Modern Writing. Madison/Londres: Associated University Press, 2002 Gary Taylor. "Thomas Middleton." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 Stanley Wells. Select Bibliographical Guides: English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975 The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume VI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907–1921. Bartleby e-text The Oxford Middleton Project The Plays of Thomas Middleton Bilingual editions (English/French) of two Middleton plays by Antoine Ertlé: (A Game at Chess) ; (The Old Law)

Ligações externas

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