Women Beware Women, and Other Plays

This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: 'A Chaste Maid in Cheapside' is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; 'Women Beware Women' and 'The Changeling' (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies outside of Shakespeare - studies in lust, power, violence, and self-delusive psychology; 'A Game at Chess' was the single most popular play of the whole Shakespearean era, asatirical exposé of Jesuit plotting and Anglo-Spanish politics which played tp pacifist houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it. The best-value collection available with the most officially up-to-date introduction; all the play texts are newly edited with richly informative annotation.