Women Beware Women

by Thomas Middleton

Overview

Women Beware Women is a major tragedy of the Renaissance period, anatomizing lust, hypocrisy, and moral blindness. It is a play about people corrupted greed for sex, wealth, and position. J.R. Mulryne's late edition of this classic drama is comprised of an accurate modernized text, supplemented by a new, thorough a wide-ranging introduction. A play of great vitality Women Beware Women deals with a permissive society which falls in ruins when the weakened bonds that hold together finally give way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420945836
Publisher:	Digireads.com Publishing
Publication date:	04/25/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	97 KB

About the Author

Thomas Middleton was a prolific and successful English Jacobean playwright and poet. A contemporary of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Middleton wrote over 30 plays including A Mad World, My Masters which was first performed in 1606.

William C. Carroll is Professor of English Emeritus at Boston University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction * Text: Women Beware Women