Description: Thomas Middleton is one of the few playwrights in English whose range and brilliance comes close to Shakespeare's. This edition makes all Middleton's work accessible in a single volume, for the first time.
Review Quotes: "The Oxford Middleton is a monumental achievement...a landmark edition, one that enables us to appreciate afresh an extraordinary literary career." --James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare and Professor of English, Columbia University
"Few editorial projects have been as eagerly anticipated as the Oxford Middleton, which will utterly transform how we understand early modern drama, both in the classroom and in our research. As with Shakespeare, Gary Taylor and his team have set a new gold standard for textual editing and interpretive criticism, leaping from the 19th century to the 21st - finally an edition that captures Middleton's tremendous accomplishments." - Henry Turner, Rutgers University, author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630"All of us who care deeply about the history of English drama welcome with great enthusiasm and excitement the publication of the Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, a major achievement in textual scholarship that represents the collective expertise and critical wisdom of scholars from all over the world. Gary Taylor and his many collaborators have given us a new and remarkably versatile Thomas Middleton--a great tragic playwright, a brilliant creator of sly and cynical urban comedies, a thoroughly gifted man of the theater and citizen of London. With this massive collected edition, the history of English drama is much more complete and we can hope for many more professional productions of these neglected plays." --Gail Paster, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library