Five Jacobean Tragedies

by Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Andrew Hadfield

Haunted by the "dance of death", these plays contain powerful critiques of existing inequalities. A common theme throughout is the powerful woman who is more than a match for the men who try to silence her.

512 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2000

About the author

Thomas Middleton (1580 – 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in comedy and tragedy. Also a prolific writer of masques and pageants, he remains one of the most noteworthy and distinctive of Jacobean dramatists.