Chaste Maid in Cheapside, A - Couverture souple

Middleton, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0713650680 ISBN 13 : 9780713650686

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2002

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0713650680
• ISBN 13: 9780713650686
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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