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  • NAME: Thomas Middleton
  • OCCUPATION: Playwright
  • BIRTH DATE: c. April 1580
  • DEATH DATE: July 04, 1627
  • EDUCATION: Queen's College, Oxford
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: London, England
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Newington Butts, Surrey, England

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Thomas Middleton is one of the most noteworthy and distinctive Jacobean dramatists who was equally successful in portraying both comedy and tragedy.


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Thomas Middleton is one of the most noteworthy and distinctive Jacobean dramatists who was equally successful in portraying both comedy and tragedy. As a playwright, he was frequently commissioned to write pageants and civic entertainments. His most successful plays include A Game at Chess (1625), an allegory about England and Spain's political tensions, Women Beware Women and The Honest Whore.

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