THOMAS MIDDLETON IN CONTEXT

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With twenty black and white illustrations throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a touch of bumping to the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, or tears.

An interpretation of the life and works of Jacobean Thomas Middleton edited by Suzanne Gossett, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, that places Middleton's canon within its wider cultural, political, theatrical, and social contexts, and examines its performance history and afterlives in western culture.