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Thomas Middleton

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English playwright and poet

Person · Open Library

Born
1580
Died
1627
Works
139

Top works

  • The Witch
  • The Changeling
  • A faire quarrell
  • Michaelmas Term
  • The Ghost of Lucrece

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Listeners
67
Total plays
557

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Quotes

  • Like pearlDropt from the opening eyelids of the mornUpon the bashful rose.

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date of birth
1580-04-18
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date of death
1627-07-02
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Thomas Middleton, depicted in the frontispiece of Two New Plays, a 1657 edition of Women Beware Women and More Dissemblers Besides Women Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among the few to gain equal success in comedy and tragedy. He was also a prolific writer of masques and pageants.

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