The Changeling
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The Changeling is Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece. A tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.
Alsemero has fallen in love with the beautiful Beatrice after a chance meeting in a church - but Beatrice has already been promised to another man. Unable to marry the man she loves, she employs the hated De Flores, her father's servant, to murder the man her father bids her marry. As payment, De Flores demands Beatrice. And then things get worse...
Edited and introduced by Trevor Griffiths.
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Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson among the most successful and prolific playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- For Further Reading
- Middleton and Rowley: Key Dates
- Dramatis Personae
- Act One
- Scene i
- Scene ii
- Act Two
- Scene i
- Scene ii
- Act Three
- Scene i
- Scene ii
- Scene iii
- Scene iv
- Act Four
- Scene i
- Scene ii
- Scene iii
- Act Five
- Scene i
- Scene i
- Scene iii
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information
