A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
by Thomas Middleton (9780713650686)

The last in Middleton's series of satirical city comedies, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside has long been recognised as the dramatist's finest comedy, excelling in its unity of tone and headlong vitality and welding into a complex whole the themes of corruption, money and sex. Brissenden shows how irony informs the whole structure of the play and is reinforced by Middleton's choice of vocabulary and use of language. He also gives a full discussion of the play's rediscovery as a fast-paced stage piece in the twentieth century.

Introduction
The place
The author
Date
Sources
The play
Ironic designs
Language
Comic-satiric
The play on the stage
Note on the text
Further reading
The Swan Theatre
The playtext
Appendix: Thomas Campion, the Eighth Epigram from Observations in the Art of English Poesie; Ballad, 'Who would not be a cuckold'

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