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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.
Thomas Middleton (getauft 18. April 1580 in London; † 1627 in Newington Butts) war ein englischer Schriftsteller und Dichter . Wie auch John Fletcher und Ben Jonson gehörte er zu den erfolgreichsten Stückeschreibern der englischen Renaissance.
Thomas Middleton (born April? 1580, London, Eng.—died July 4, 1627, Newington Butts, Surrey) was a late-Elizabethan dramatist who drew people as he saw them, with comic gusto or searching irony. By 1600 Middleton had spent two years at Oxford and had published three books of verse.
Thomas Middleton 1580-1627. Thomas Middleton was one of the most prolific Jacobean playwrights, rivaled only by John Fletcher. Like Shakespeare, MIddleton was equally at home with comedy and tragedy and with Shakespeare, Fletcher and Ben Jonson he was at the top of the popularity poll.
British Renaissance playwright Thomas Middleton wrote comedy, history, tragedy, and tragicomedy. After Middleton’s father died in 1586, his mother, Anne, married a man who had lost money in Sir Walter Raleigh’s Roanoke venture. Thomas Middleton started writing as a student at Queens College, Oxford. He and his wife, Magdalene Marbecke ...
25. Okt. 2017 · Middleton wrote one of the most politically contentious plays to be staged before the closure of the public theatres in 1642, A Game at Chess, and his political and religious affiliations continue to be of interest to scholars.
The following is an imagined account from the life of Thomas Middleton, a prolific English dramatist, who was inspired by William Shakespeare and collaborated with him on Timon of Athens, among others.
