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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)

(English dramatist, b. London; st. Gray's Inn; "Chronologer of the City of London, and Inventor of Its Honourable Entertainments" 1620; d. Newington Butts).

Works

Middleton, Thomas. The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased. London, 1597.

_____. (attr.). Microcynicon, six snarling Satires. 1599.

_____. The Mayor of Queensborough. Comedy. c. 1602.

_____. Blurt, Master Constable, or the Sapaniard's Night Walke. Comedy. Printed 1602.

_____. Randall, Earl of Chester. Tragedy. Acted 1602.

_____. The Puritan Maid, the Modest Wife, and the Wanton Widow. Drama. Lost.

_____. The Blacke Booke. Satirical tract. 1604. InWorks. Ed. Bullen.

_____. Father Hubberds Tales, or the Ant and the Nightingale. Satirical tract. 1604.

_____. The Phoenix. Tragedy. 1607.

_____. The Phoenix. Ed. Ivo Kamps and Laurence Danson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.

_____. Michaelmas Term. Comedy. 1607.

_____. A Trick to Catch the Old One. Comedy. In Middleton, Five Plays. (Penguin Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988. 1-69.

_____. The Family of Love. Comedy. 1607. In The Works of Thomas Middleton. Ed. A. H. Bullen. 8 vol. London: Nimmo, 1885.

_____. (Anon., attr.). The Revenger's Tragedy. Printed 1607. (Also attributed to Tourneur).

_____. (Middleton and Tourneur). The Revenger's Tragedy. Ed. R. A. Foakes. Manchester: Manchester UP, c. 1998.

_____. (Thomas Middleton). The Revenger's Tragedy. Audio. (LibriVox). Online at The Internet Archive 26 Aug. 2013.*

https://archive.org/details/revengers_tragedy_1308_librivox

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_____. (Thomas Middleton). The Revenger's Tragedy. Online at Project Gutenberg

http://ebooks.gutenberg.us/WorldeBookLibrary.com/revenmid.htm

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_____. The Revenger's Tragedy. In Three Jacobean Revenge Tragedies: The Revenger's Tragedy, Women Beware Women, The Changeling. Ed. R. V. Holdsworth. (Casebooks series). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990.

_____. (Attr. Thomas Middleton). The Revenger's Tragedy. In English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington et al. New York and London: Norton, 2002. 1297-1360.*

_____. Your Five Gallants. Comedy.

_____. A Mad World, My Masters.Comedy. 1608.

_____. The Witch. Tragedy. Writen 1609-16; printed 1778.

_____. The Widow. (With ?Johnson and ?Fletcher). Written 1607-15, pub. 1652.

_____. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Comedy. c. 1611, pub. 1630.

_____. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. In Middleton, Works. Ed. Bullen.

_____. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. In English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington et al. New York and London: Norton, 2002. 1453-1514.*

_____. The Mask of Cupid. Acted Jan. 1613.

_____. The Triumph of Truth. Pageant. 1613.

_____. Any Thing for a Quiet Life. (With ?Webster). Written c. 1620-2, pub. 1662.

_____. Women Beware Women. Tragedy. Written 1620-7, pub. 1657.

_____. Women Beware Women. In Works. Ed. Bullen.

_____. Women Beware Women. Ed. J. R. Mulryne. (The Revels Plays). Manchester: Manchester UP, 1975.

_____. Women Beware Women and Other Plays. (Oxford World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.

_____. Women Beware Women. In English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington et al. New York and London: Norton, 2002. 1515-92.*

_____. A Game at Chess. Satirical drama. 1625.

_____. Una partida de ajedrez. Trans. Angel Luis Pujante. Murcia, 1983.

_____. Anything for a Quiet Life. Drama.

_____. No Wit No Help like a Woman's.

_____. The Inner Temple Masque.

_____. The Works of Thomas Middleton. Ed. A. H. Bullen. 8 vols. London: Nimmo, 1885-87.

_____. Plays. Introd. A. C. Swinburne. (Mermaid). Vizetelly, 1887. (Vol. 1: Trick to Catch, Changeling, Chaste Maid, Women, Gipsy).

_____. Three Plays (Women Beware Women, A Chaste Maid of Cheapside, The Changeling). Ed. Kenneth Muir. London and Melbourne: Dent, 1975.

_____. The Selected Plays of Thomas Middleton. Ed. D. L. Frost. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978.

_____. Five Plays. (Penguin Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988.

_____. Collected Works. Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming 2000.

_____. Four Plays by Thomas Middleton. Ed. Richard Dutton.

_____. Complete Works of Thomas Middleton. Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming 1999.

_____. Women Beware Women and Other Plays. (Oxford World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.

Middleton, Thomas, and Thomas Dekker. The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse. Comedy. Comedy. Written 1604-10. Pub. 1611: The Roaring Girle. / Or / Moll Cut-Purse. / As it hath lately beene Acted on the Fortune-stage by / the Prince his Players. / Written by T. Middleton and T. Dekker. "My case is alter'd, I must work for my liuing." Printed at London for Thomas Archer, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes head-pallace, neere the Royall Exchange. 1611.

_____. The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse. In Works. Ed. Bullen. Vol. 4.

_____ The Roaring Girl. In The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama. Ed. Simon Barker and Hilary Hinds. London: Routledge, 2002. (Book/eBook)

_____ The Roaring Girl. In English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington et al. New York and London: Norton, 2002. 1371-1452.*

_____. The Honest Whore, with the Humours of the Patient Man and the Longing Wife. Comedy. Part 1. Acted as The Converted Courtezan. 1602.

_____. Entertainment for James "The Peacemaker".

Middleton, Thomas, and William Rowley. The Old Law. Rev. Massinger. Drama. 1599.

_____. A Fair Quarrel. Tragicomedy. 1615-16, printed 1617.

_____. The World's Toss'd at Tennis. Masque.

_____. The Spanish Gipsy. Comedy (based on Cervantes). 1625. In The Works of Thomas Middleton. Ed. Bullen.

_____. The Changeling. Tragedy. 1622, printed 1653.

_____. The Changeling. In Three Plays (Women Beware Women, A Chaste Maid of Cheapside, The Changeling). Ed. K. Muir. London: Dent.

_____. The Changeling. Ed. N. W. Bawcutt. (The Revels Plays). London: Methuen, 1961.

_____. The Changeling. In The Arnold Anthology of British and Irish Literature in English. Ed. Robert Clark and Thomas Healy. London: Hodder Headline-Arnold, 1997. 316-73.*

_____. The Changeling. In Six Renaissance Tragedies. Ed. Colin Gibson. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.

_____. The Changeling. In English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington et al. New York and London: Norton, 2002. 1593-1658.*

_____. The Changeling. In The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama. Ed. Simon Barker and Hilary Hinds. London: Routledge, 2002. (Book/eBook)

_____. (Thomas Middleton). The Changeling. In Thomas Middleton: Three Plays. Ed. Kenneth Muir. London and Melbourne: Dent, 1975.

_____. El trueque (1622) de Thomas Middleton y William Rowley: Alicante como escenario del teatro jacobeo. Ed. and trans. John D. Sanderson. Alicante: Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert, 2002.

Holdsworth, R. V. (U of Manchester), ed. Three Jacobean Revenge Tragedies: The Revenger's Tragedy, Women Beware Women, The Changeling. (Casebooks series). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990.

Munday, A., Thomas Dekker, Michael Drayton, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster. The Two Harpies. Drama. Acted May 1602. (Not printed).

Shakespeare, William (and ?Thomas Middleton). Macbeth.

_____ (and ? Thomas Middleton). Timon of Athens.

Biography

Hazlitt, William. "Thomas Middleton." In The Lives of the British Poets. London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1854. 1.199-200.*

Criticism

Álvarez Recio, Leticia. "The White House en A Game at Chess: El ataque de Thomas Middleton a la política real." Atlantis 22.2 (Dec. 2000): 7-19.*

Bamford, Karen. Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000. (Pericles, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece).

Barker, Richard Hindry. Thomas Middleton. New York: Columbia UP, 1958.

_____. "A Game at Chess and Conclusion," from Barker, Thomas Middleton. 1958. 146-53. Rpt. in The Critical Perspective: Volume 3: Elizabethan-Caroline. Ed. Harold Bloom. (The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism). New York: Chelsea House, 1986. 1330-32.*

Burks, Deborah G. "'I'll Want My Will Else': The Changeling and Women's Complicity with their Rapist." ELH 62.4 (Winter 1995): 759-90.*

Callens, Johan. From Middleton and Rowley's Changeling to Sam Shepard's Bodyguard: A Contemporary Appropriation of a Renaissance Drama. (Studies in Comparative Literature, vol. 7). Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 1997.*

Chakravorty, Swapan. Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Dawson, Anthony B. "Women Beware Women and the Economy of Rape." Studies in English Literature 27 (Spring 1987): 303-320.

_____. "Giving the Finger: Puns and Transgression in The Changeling." In The Elizabethan Theatre XII. Toronto, 1992. 93-112. (Proceedings of the Elizabethan Theatre Conference, Waterloo, 1987):

Dollimore, Jonathan. "9. The Revenger's Tragedy (c. 1606): Providence, Parody and Black Camp." In Dollimore, Radical Tragedy. 3rd ed. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2004. 139-52.*

Drabble, Margaret, ed. "Revenge Tragedy / The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois / The Revenger's Tragedy." From The Oxford Companion to English Literature. In García Landa, Vanity Fea 30 Oct. 2014.*

http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/revenge-tragedy.html

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Dutton, Richard, ed. Middleton. (New Casebooks). Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999.

Eliot, T. S. "Thomas Middleton." 1927. In Eliot, Selected Essays. 3rd. ed. London: Faber, 1951. 161-71.

_____. From "Thomas Middleton." 1927, from Selected Essays. 1950. 140-48. Rpt. in The Critical Perspective: Volume 3: Elizabethan-Caroline. Ed. Harold Bloom. (The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism). New York: Chelsea House, 1986. 1329-30.*

Engleberg, Edward. "Tragic Blindness in The Changeling and Women Beware Women." Modern Language Quarterly 23 (1962): 23-8.

Ewbank, Inga-Stina. "Realism and Morality in Women Beware Women." Essays and Studies ns 22 (1969).

Farr, Dorothy M. Thomas Middleton and the Drama of Realism. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1973.

Hallett, Charles A. From "Introduction" to Hallett, Middleton's Cynics: A Study of Middleton's Insight into the Moral Psychology of the Mediocre Mind. 1975. 3-14. Rpt. in The Critical Perspective: Volume 3: Elizabethan-Caroline. Ed. Harold Bloom. (The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism). New York: Chelsea House, 1986. 1332-34.*

Heinemann, Margot. Puritanism and the Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Stuarts. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1980.

Hopkins, Lisa. "Acting the Act in The Changeling." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 8 (November 1995): 107-12.*

Jump, John D. "Middleton's Tragedies." In The Age of Shakespeare. Vol. 2 of The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Ed. Boris Ford. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982. Rev. 1993. 457-70.*

Low, Jennifer. Manhood and the Duel: Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture. (Early Modern Cultural Studies). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. (Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton…)

McAlindon, T. "6. Thomas Middleton." In English Renaissance Tragedy. London: Macmillan, 1986. Rpt. 1988. 193-235.*

Middleton & Rowley: The Changeling. (Macmillan Master Guides). Houndmills: Macmillan.

Mullaney, Steven. "Mourning and Misogyny: Hamlet, The Revenger's Tragedy, and the Final Progress of Elizabeth I, 1600-1607." Shakespeare Quarterly 45 (1994): 139-62.

_____. "Mourning and Misogyny: Hamlet, the Revenger's Tragedy, and the Final Progress of Elizabeth I, 1600-1607." In Centuries' Ends, Narrative Means. Ed. Robert Newman. Stanford (CA): Stanford UP, 1996. 238-60.*

_____. "Mourning and Misogyny: Hamlet, The Revenger's Tragedy, and the Final Progress of Elizabeth I, 1600-1607." In Political Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Orgel and Sean Keilen. New York: Garland, 1999. 67-91.*

Neill, Michael. "'Hidden Malady': Death, Discovery, and Indistinction in The Changeling." In Neill, Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 1998. 168-98.*

Nisa Cáceres, Daniel. Rev. of El Trueque (1622) de Thomas Middleton y William Rowley: Alicante como escenario del teatro jacobeo. Ed. and trans. John D. Sanderson. Atlantis 26.2 (Dec. 2004): 145-49.*

Orgel, Stephen. "The Subtexts of The Roaring Girl." In Erotic Politics. Ed Susan Zimmermann. New York and London, 1992. Rev. version in Orgel, Impersonations.

Parker, R. B. "Middleton's Experiments with Comedy and Judgement." In Jacobean Theatre. Ed. John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris. (Stratford-upon-Avon Studies, 1). London: Arnold, 1960.

Potter, John. "'In Time of Sports': Maskes and Masking in Middleton's Women Beware Women." Papers in Language and Literature 18 (1982).

Pujante, Angel Luis. "Sátira, comicidad y juegos de palabras en A Game at Chess, de Thomas Middleton." In Literary and Linguistic Aspects of Humour: VIth AEDEAN Conference Proceedings. Barcelona: Departamento de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa de la Universidad de Barcelona, 1984. 211-16.*

_____. "Leantio as an Outsider in Middleton's Women Beware Women." Atlantis 7 (1985): 9-18.

Putt, S. Gorley. "The Tormented World of Middleton." TLS (1974): 833-34.

Ricks, Christopher. "Word-play in Women Beware Women." Review of English Studies ns 12 (1961): 237-50.

Ricks, Christopher. "The Tragedies of Webster, Tourneur and Middleton: Symbols, Imagery and Conventions." In Sphere History of Literature in the English Language: English Drama to 1710. Ed. Christopher Ricks. London: Sphere, 1971. 306-51.*

Rose, Mary Beth. "Women in Men's Clothing: Apparel and Social Stability in The Roaring Girl." ELR 14 (1984): 367-91.

Salingar, Leo G. From "The Revenger's Tragedy and the Morality Tradition." Scrutiny (March 1938): 402-24. Rpt. in The Critical Perspective: Volume 3: Elizabethan-Caroline. Ed. Harold Bloom. (The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism). New York: Chelsea House, 1986. 1323-26.*

Sánchez Escribano, Javier. "The Spanish Match Through the Texts: Jonson, Middleton and Howell." In SEDERI 2. Ed. S. González Fernández-Corugedo. Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, 1992. 230-46.

Schoenbaum, Samuel. Middleton's Tragedies. New York: Columbia UP, 1955.

Shaw, Patricia. "Los aciertos dramáticos de Thomas Middleton." In Estudios literarios ingleses: Shakespeare y el teatro de su época. Madrid: Cátedra, 1987. 255-79.

Soubriet Velasco, Beatriz. "Chaos and Harmony in Middleton's A Game at Chess." In SEDERI VI. Ed. Ana Manzanas. Salamanca: U de Castilla-La Mancha, 1996. 197-202.

Stallybrass, Peter. "Reading the Body: The Revenger's Tragedy and the Jacobean Theater of Consumption." Renaissance Drama 18 (1987): 121-48.

Ure, Peter. From "Patient Madman and Honest Whore: The Middleton-Dekker Oxymoron." Essays and Studies (1966): 18-40. Rpt. in The Critical Perspective: Volume 3: Elizabethan-Caroline. Ed. Harold Bloom. (The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism). New York: Chelsea House, 1986. 1410-16.*

Wells, Stanley. Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story. London: Penguin, 2007.

White, Martin. Middleton and Tourneur. (English Dramatists). Houndmills: Macmillan.

Whitlock, Keith. "The Spanish Gipsy under Spanish Eyes." In SEDERI VI. Ed. Ana María Manzanas Calvo. N.p.: SEDERI, 1996. 215-27. (Middleton and Rowley).

Yachnin, Paul. Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and the Making of Theatrical Value. (New Cultural Studies). U of Pennsylvania P, c. 1998.

Related works

Bloodlust. Filmed theatre. Written and dir. Dylan Thomas. Based on Middleton's (?) The Revenger's Tragedy. City of Bath College Performing Arts Students. Online at YouTube (Tobie Lang) 10 Sept. 2013.*

http://youtu.be/OugLOrLXXdQ

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Reynolds, John. The Triumphs of God's Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther in Thirty Severall tragicall Histories. 1621. (Source for Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling).