Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton (Londres, 18 de abril de 1580 – Newington Butts, 4 de julho de 1627) foi um dramaturgo inglês do teatro isabelino.

Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton
Nascimento	18 de abril de 1580 Londres
Morte	4 de julho de 1627 Londres
Cidadania	Reino Unido, Inglaterra
Alma mater	Christ's Hospital The Queen's College
Ocupação	dramaturga, poeta, escritor, dramaturgo
Obras destacadas	The Changeling, Women Beware Women
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Reputação

O trabalho de Middleton tem sido elogiado por críticos literários, entre eles Algernon Charles Swinburne e T. S. Eliot.. Este último achava que Middleton perdia apenas para Shakespeare.

As peças de Middleton foram encenadas ao longo do século XX e no século XXI, cada década oferecendo mais produções do que a anterior. Mesmo algumas obras menos familiares dele foram encenadas: A Fair Quarrel no National Theatre e The Old Law pela Royal Shakespeare Company. The Changeling foi adaptado para o cinema várias vezes. A tragédia Women Beware Women continua sendo uma das favoritas dos palcos. The Revenger's Tragedy foi adaptado para o filme de Alex Cox, Revengers Tragedy, cujos créditos iniciais atribuem a autoria da peça a Middleton.

Peças

• The Phoenix (1603–1604)
• The Honest Whore, Part 1, a city comedy (1604), Co-escrito com Thomas Dekker
• Michaelmas Term, a city comedy, (1604)
• All's Well That Ends Well (1604–5);
• A Trick to Catch the Old One, (1605)
• A Mad World, My Masters, (1605)
• A Yorkshire Tragedy, (1605);
• Timon of Athens a tragedy (1605–1606)
• The Puritan (1606)
• The Revenger's Tragedy (1606).
• Your Five Gallants, (1607)
• The Bloody Banquet (1608–1609); Co-escrito com Dekker
• The Roaring Girl, (1611); Co-escrito com Dekker
• No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's, (1611)
• The Second Maiden's Tragedy, a tragedy (1611);
• A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, (1613)
• Wit at Several Weapons, (1613)
• More Dissemblers Besides Women, (1614)
• The Widow (1615–16)
• The Witch, (1616)
• A Fair Quarrel, (1616). Co-escrito com Rowley
• The Old Law, (1618–19). Co-escrito com Rowley
• Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough, (1620)
• Women Beware Women, (1621)
• Measure for Measure (1603–4)
• Anything for a Quiet Life, (1621). Co-escrito com John Webster
• The Changeling, (1622). Co-escrito com Rowley
• The Nice Valour (1622).
• The Spanish Gypsy,(1623).
• A Game at Chess, (1624).

Outros trabalhos de palco

• The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James Through the City of London (1603–4). Co-escrito com Dekker, Stephen Harrison e Ben Jonson
• The Manner of his Lordship's Entertainment
• Civitas Amor
• The Triumphs of Truth (1613)
• The Triumphs of Honour and Industry (1617)
• The Masque of Heroes, or, The Inner Temple Masque (1619)
• The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity (1619)
• The World Tossed at Tennis (1620). Co-escrito com William Rowley.
• Honourable Entertainments (1620–1)
• An Invention (1622)
• The Sun in Aries (1621)
• The Triumphs of Honour and Virtue (1622)
• The Triumphs of Integrity with The Triumphs of the Golden Fleece (1623)
• The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity (1626)

Poesia

• The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased (1597)
• Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires (1599)
• The Ghost of Lucrece (1600)
• Burbage epitaph (1619)
• Bolles epitaph (1621)
• Duchess of Malfi (1623)
• St James (1623)
• To the King (1624)

Prosa

• The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets (1601)
• News from Gravesend, Co-escrito com Dekker (1603)
• The Nightingale and the Ant (1604)
• The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinary (1604), Co-escrito com Dekker
• Plato's Cap Cast at the Year 1604 (1604)
• The Black Book (1604)
• Sir Robert Sherley his Entertainment in Cracovia (1609)
• The Two Gates of Salvation (1609), ou The Marriage of the Old and New Testament
• The Owl's Almanac (1618)
• The Peacemaker (1618)

Fontes

• Anthony Covatta, "Thomas Middleton's City Comedies." Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press, 1973
• Barbara Jo Baines, The Lust Motif in the Plays of Thomas Middleton. Salzburg, 1973
• Eccles, Mark (1933). «Middleton's Birth and Education». Review of English Studies. 7: 431–41 
• Pier Paolo Frassinelli, "Realism, Desire, and Reification: Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside." Early Modern Literary Studies 8 (2003)
• Kenneth Friedenreich, ed., "Accompaninge the players": Essays Celebrating Thomas Middleton, 1580–1980 ISBN 0-404-62278-X
• Margot Heinemann. Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama Under the Early Stuarts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980
• Herbert Jack Heller. Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Press, 2000
• Ben Jonson. The Staple of News. Londres, 1692. Holloway e-text
• Bryan Loughrey and Neil Taylor. "Introduction." In Thomas Middleton, Five Plays. Bryan Loughrey e Neil Taylor, eds. Penguin, 1988
• Jane Milling and Peter Thomson, eds. The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Mary Beth Rose. The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988
• Schoenbaum, Samuel (1956). «Middleton's Tragicomedies». Modern Philology. 54: 7–19. doi:10.1086/389120 
• Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Age of Shakespeare. Nova York: Harpers, 1908. Gutenberg e-text
• Ceri Sullivan, 'Thomas Middleton's View of Public Utility', Review of English Studies 58 (2007), pp. 160–74
• Ceri Sullivan, The Rhetoric of Credit. Merchants in Early Modern Writing. Madison/Londres: Associated University Press, 2002
• Gary Taylor. "Thomas Middleton." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
• Stanley Wells. Select Bibliographical Guides: English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume VI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907–1921. Bartleby e-text
• The Oxford Middleton Project Arquivado em 3 julho 2019 no Wayback Machine
• The Plays of Thomas Middleton
• Bilingual editions (English/French) of two Middleton plays by Antoine Ertlé: (A Game at Chess) Arquivado em 3 outubro 2011 no Wayback Machine; (The Old Law) Arquivado em 3 outubro 2011 no Wayback Machine

Ligações externas

• Obras de ou sobre Thomas Middleton no Internet Archive