
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Thomas Middleton(Author)
Alan Brissenden(Editor)
Methuen Drama (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 28. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-7136-5068-6 (ISBN)
Description
Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in London's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is more important than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted commodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middleton interweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marry their children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any more for fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their property in the family. Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to a rich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony. Like many early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this play warned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country produces.
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Series
Edition
2. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
photographs, line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
167 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7136-5068-6 (9780713650686)
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Thomas Middleton | Alan Brissenden
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
E-Book
07/2014
1st Edition
Methuen Drama
€11.99
Available for download

Thomas Middleton | Alan Brissenden
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
E-Book
06/2014
1st Edition
Methuen Drama
€11.99
Available for download
Previous edition
Thomas Middleton | Alan Brissenden
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Book
09/1988
A & C Black Publishers Ltd
€27.42
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Persons
Thomas Middleton was a prolific and successful English Jacobean playwright and poet. A contemporary of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Middleton wrote over 30 plays including A Mad World, My Masters which was first performed in 1606.