{"product_id":"thomas-middleton-the-collected-works-9780199580538","title":"Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works","description":"Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - 'our other Shakespeare' - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created lasting masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office hit of early modern London (the unique history play \u003cem\u003eA Game at Chess\u003c\/em\u003e ). His range extends beyond these traditional genres to tragicomedies, masques, pageants, pamphlets, epigrams, and Biblical and political commentaries, written alone or in collaboration with Shakespeare, Webster, Dekker, Ford, Heywood, Rowley, and others. Compared by critics to Aristophanes and Ibsen, Racine and Joe Orton, he has influenced writers as diverse as Aphra Behn and T. S. Eliot. Though repeatedly censored in his own time, he has since come to be particularly admired for his representations of the intertwined pursuits of sex, money, power, and God. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Collected Works \u003c\/em\u003ebrings together for the first time in a single volume all the works currently attributed to Middleton. It is the first edition of Middleton's works since 1886. The texts are printed in modern spelling and punctuation, with critical introductions and foot-of-the-page commentaries; they are arranged in chronological order, with a special section of Juvenilia. The volume is introduced by essays on Middleton's life and reputation, on early modern London, and on the varied theatres of the English Renaissance. Extensively illustrated, it incorporates much new information on Middleton's life, canon, texts, and contexts. A self-consciously 'federal edition', \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Works\u003c\/em\u003e applies contemporary theories about the nature of literature and the history of the book to editorial practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGary Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e, George Matthew Edgar Professor of English and Director of the program in the History of Text Technologies at Florida State University, was joint General Editor of Shakespeare's \u003cem\u003eComplete Works\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 1986; revised 2005). He has written or co-written more than a dozen books, including \u003cem\u003eReinventing Shakespeare, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCultural Selection, Castration, and Buying Whiteness\u003c\/em\u003e . In 2006 he gave the McKenzie lectures in the history of the book at Oxford University. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Lavagnino\u003c\/strong\u003e studied physics at Harvard University and American literature at Brandeis University, where he wrote his dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov. He has worked in atmospheric science at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and in electronic publishing for numerous organizations. He is now Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing at King's College London, and is working on the digital Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Associate General Editors\u003cbr\u003eMacDonald P. Jackson\u003cbr\u003eJohn Jowett\u003cbr\u003eValerie Wayne\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Weiss\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844106457362,"sku":"9780199580538","price":57.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3dd013aa-4866-4a0b-ac10-e7474b64ab0d.jpg?v=1737311264","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/thomas-middleton-the-collected-works-9780199580538","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}