A Chaste Maid In Cheapside Thomas Middleton Edited By R B Parker
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A Chaste Maid In Cheapside Thomas Middleton Edited By R B Parker
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Author : Thomas Middleton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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A Chaste Maid In Cheapside
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Author : Thomas Middleton
language : en
Publisher: London : Methuen
Release Date : 1969
A Chaste Maid In Cheapside written by Thomas Middleton and has been published by London : Methuen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with English drama categories.
The play presents multiple plots centered on the marriage of Moll Yellowhammer, the titular maid, who is daughter to a wealthy Cheapside goldsmith, and, in particular, her intended husband, Sir Walter Whorehound. Moll loves Touchwood Junior, a poor gallant; her father, however, has betrothed her to Whorehound, a philandering knight eager for Moll's dowry. As a kind of side-bargain, Sir Walter has promised Moll's brother Tim a "landed niece" from Wales. Tim, a fatuous scholar, returns to London from Cambridge University with his Latin tutor. This "landed niece" is in reality one of Sir Walter's mistresses, who has no land in actuality. Sir Walter is also having an affair with the wife of Allwit, a knowing cuckold, his name an inversion of "wittol," who lives happily on the money Sir Walter gives his wife. Meanwhile, Touchwood Senior (the elder brother of Moll's true love) prepares to depart from his wife; prodigiously fertile, he impregnates any woman he sleeps with. He and his wife must separate to avoid another pregnancy, which they cannot afford. His salvation comes from the Kixes, an aging couple who have not been able to conceive. This is important because if they have a child, Sir Walter (a relation of theirs) will not inherit their fortune, on which he has confidently depended, going so far as to live beyond his means. A maid tells the Kixes that Touchwood makes a special fertility potion; Touchwood deceives his way into the bed of Lady Kix. After an abortive attempt to elope with Touchwood Junior, Moll is guarded at home. The day before the wedding, Moll flees her parents' home again. Caught while attempting to cross the Thames, she is drenched and seems to fall sick upon being brought home. Touchwood Junior and Sir Walter fight in the street, and both are wounded. Sir Walter believes that he is near death. At Allwit's house, he repents all of his sins, condemning the Allwits for indulging him. When news is brought that Lady Kix is pregnant (thus ruining Sir Walter's prospects), the Allwits kick him out and plan to sell all Sir Walter's gifts and move to a home in The Strand. Moll continues to be very sick; when Touchwood Senior brings word that his brother has died, she faints and appears to die while Susan, her servant, is let in on a secret plan. Saddened, the Yellowhammers agree to Touchwood Senior's request that the young lovers receive a joint burial. At the funeral, Moll and Touchwood Junior rise from their coffins and the mourning turns to celebration. The two are wed, as Tim and the Welsh "niece" had been earlier that day; Kix promises to support the family of Touchwood Senior, who announces that Sir Walter has been imprisoned for debt. All exit, headed for a celebratory dinner.
A Chaste Maid Cheapside
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Author : Thomas Middleton
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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A Chaste Maid In Cheapside
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Author : Thomas Middleton
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-13
A Chaste Maid In Cheapside written by Thomas Middleton and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-13 with Drama categories.
Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in London's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is more important than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted commodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middleton interweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marry their children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any more for fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their property in the family. Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to a rich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony. Like many early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this play warned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country produces.
A Critical Old Spelling Edition Of The Birth Of Merlin Q 1662
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Author : Joanna Udall
language : en
Publisher: MHRA
Release Date : 1991
A Critical Old Spelling Edition Of The Birth Of Merlin Q 1662 written by Joanna Udall and has been published by MHRA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Arthurian romances categories.
Credited on its first title page to William Shakespeare and William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin continues to provoke speculation about its place in the Shakespeare 'Apocrypha'. The play is an imaginative re-working of the story of Merlin the Magician and his part in the struggle against the Saxon invasion of Britain. It contains not only scenes of love, war, and court politics, but a devil, a clown, and an unusual number of spectacular stage effects. This edition seeks to provide contexts for the play's diverse elements (chronicle history, romance, spectacle, and comedy), and considers its relationships with a wide variety of texts from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English prose Brut to Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
Middleton A Chaste Maid In Cheapside
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language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
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The Works Of Thomas Middleton A Chaste Maid In Cheapside
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Author : Thomas Middleton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The Works Of Thomas Middleton A Chaste Maid In Cheapside written by Thomas Middleton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with English drama categories.
The Works Of Thomas Middleton A Chaste Maid In Cheapside
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Author : Thomas Middleton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
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Banquets Set Forth
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Author : Chris Meads
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2001
Banquets Set Forth written by Chris Meads and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Cooking categories.
Banquets proved an enduring setting in which to play out crucial and compelling sections of 99 surviving plays written between 1585 and 1642. Food, sex and revenge; food, drink and violent disorder; food, harmony and reconciliation; food, flattery and self-fashioning; arresting combinations which early modern banquets on stage contrived to present.
Power On Display
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Author : Leonard Tennenhouse
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Power On Display written by Leonard Tennenhouse and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 1986. 'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.' Stephen Greenblatt. What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare's progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general process of cultural change in the period.