ISBN: 9781161419429

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), a bricklayer's son, rose to become one of the most eminent playwrights of the Jacobean period. Along with Ben Johnson he helped shape the dynamic course of d… Mehr…

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), a bricklayer's son, rose to become one of the most eminent playwrights of the Jacobean period. Along with Ben Johnson he helped shape the dynamic course of drama in Renaissance England. His range is broad, as his work successfully covers comedy, tragedy, and history. Praised during his life as well as today, Middleton remains relevant and influential. "A Trick to Catch the Old One" (1608) is a delightful comedy following a young Thomas Witgood who has managed to Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), a bricklayer's son, rose to become one of the most eminent playwrights of the Jacobean period. Along with Ben Johnson he helped shape the dynamic course of drama in Renaissance England. His range is broad, as his work successfully covers comedy, tragedy, and history. Praised during his life as well as today, Middleton remains relevant and influential. "A Trick to Catch the Old One" (1608) is a delightful comedy following a young Thomas Witgood who has managed to squander his fortune and is now in debt to his uncle Pecunius Lucre. In order to manage and pay off his debts, an elaborate scheme to court a wealthy mistresses is devised. What ensues is a comedy of intrigue filled with wit and bawdy. In this play greed and seduction intertwine to create a smart comedy with latent social commentary. Books, Fiction~~Literary, Trick-to-Catch-the-Old-One~~Thomas-Middleton, 999999999, A Trick to Catch the Old One, Thomas Middleton, 116141942X, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9781161419429

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: KESSINGER PUB CO], My Adversary Evermore Twits Me With My Nephew, Forsooth, My Nephew Why May Not A Virtuous Uncle Have A Dissolute Nephew? What Though He Be A Broth… Mehr…

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: KESSINGER PUB CO], My Adversary Evermore Twits Me With My Nephew, Forsooth, My Nephew Why May Not A Virtuous Uncle Have A Dissolute Nephew? What Though He Be A Brotheller, A Wastethrift, A Common Surfeiter, And, To Conclude, A Beggar Must Sin In Him Call Up Shame In Me? Since We Have No Part In Their Follies, Why Should We Have Part In Their Infamies? For My Strict Hand Toward His Mortgage, That I Deny Not, I Confess I Had An Uncle's Pen'worth.Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen<

ISBN: 9781161419429

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: KESSINGER PUB CO], My Adversary Evermore Twits Me With My Nephew, Forsooth, My Nephew Why May Not A Virtuous Uncle Have A Dissolute Nephew? What Though He Be A Broth… Mehr…

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: KESSINGER PUB CO], My Adversary Evermore Twits Me With My Nephew, Forsooth, My Nephew Why May Not A Virtuous Uncle Have A Dissolute Nephew? What Though He Be A Brotheller, A Wastethrift, A Common Surfeiter, And, To Conclude, A Beggar Must Sin In Him Call Up Shame In Me? Since We Have No Part In Their Follies, Why Should We Have Part In Their Infamies? For My Strict Hand Toward His Mortgage, That I Deny Not, I Confess I Had An Uncle's Pen'worth.Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen<

ISBN: 9781161419429

Hardback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], Contemporary Fiction