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Thomas Middleton (baptized April 18, 1580, died 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He attended school at Christ's Hospital and went on to study at The Queen's College, Oxford and was admitted to the practice of law. He was appointed City Chronologer of the City of London in 1620, a post that he held until his death. His successor in the post was Ben Jonson.
Middleton wrote in many genres, including tragedy, history and city comedy. His best-known plays are the tragedies The Changeling (written with William Rowley) and Women Beware Women, and the cynically satiric city comedy A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. It is also widely believed that he wrote The Revenger's Tragedy, previously attributed to Cyril Tourneur, and collaborated with Shakespeare on the scenes involving the Weird Sisters and Hecate in Macbeth.
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Imagi-nation: Thomas Middleton - Biographical article.
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Luminarium: Thomas Middleton - Includes a biography and annotated links to online resources.
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: Middleton and Rowley - Biography and background information.
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The Plays of Thomas Middleton - With images, links, and complete texts of Any Thing for a Quiet Life, The Changeling, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Complete on-line works, A Fair Quarrel, The Family of Love, Hengist King of Kent, No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's, The Old Law, The Phoenix, The Puritan, The Roaring Girl, A Trick to Catch the Old One, The Witch, Your Five Gallants.
United Independent Picture Limited - Site on the 1998 film of The Changeling, directed by Marcus Thompson, with a synopsis and history of the play.
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