The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton

Gary Taylor is George Matthew Edgar Professor of English at Florida State University, founder of the History of Text Technologies program there, general editor (with Stanley Wells) of the Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works, and general editor (with John Lavagnino) of the Oxford edition of Middleton's Collected Works.Trish Thomas Henley is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. She has published in Exemplaria, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Theatre Journal and is currently finishing a book manuscript, Velvet Women Within: The Boy Actor and the Prostitute on the Early English Stage.

• List of Figures ; List of Contributors ; Unintroduction: Middletonian Dissensus ; 1. Thomas Middleton's Shelf Life ; 2. Playing with Space: Making a Public in Middleton's Theatre ; 3. History . Plays . Genre . Games ; 4. Middleton's Collaborators in Music and Song ; 5. Passionate Tunes for Amorous Poems: Middleton's Way with Music ; 6. Playing with Boys on Middleton's Stage-and Ours ; 7. Middleton's Historical Imagination ; 8. Middleton and Dance ; 9. The Ecology of Passions in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and The Changeling ; 10. Middleton and Caroline Theatre ; 11. 'Time's comic sparks': the Dramaturgy of A Mad World My Masters and Timon of Athens ; 12. 'My cloak's a stranger; he was made but yesterday': Clothing, Language, and the Construction of Theatre in Middleton ; 13. 'Old Dad dead?' The Rise of the Neo-Noir 'Heritage' Film, Or, Middleton with a View ; 14. 'Nimble in damnation, quick in tune': Vice and The Revenger's Tragedy ; 15. Middletonian Stylistics ; 16. Tragicomic Men ; 17. Middleton and Usury ; 18. Middleton, Plautus, and the Ethics of Comedy ; 19. 'More lies than true tales': Skepticism in Middleton's Mock Almanacs ; 20. Staging Muteness in Middleton ; 21. Middleton's Language Machine ; 22. Middleton and the Theatre of Emergency ; 23. Middleton and the Culture of Courtesy ; 24. Playwright to Playwright: The Changeling ; 25. Middleton and Spain ; 26. Demonic Middleton ; 27. Middleton and Mimetic Desire ; 28. Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare, and the Masculine Grotesque ; 29. Middleton as Poet ; 30. The Emotions of Tragedy: Middleton or Shakespeare? ; 31. Giving Revenger's Its Due ; 32. Middleton's Imagination ; 33. Middleton and the Continent ; 34. 'It's a whole different sex!': Women Performing Middleton on the Modern Stage ; 35. Middleton and Ecological Change ; 36. 'The Lure of a Taffeta Cloak': Middleton's Sartorial Seduction in Your Five Gallants ; Bibliography ; Index

the diversity of the individual contributions to the Handbook is as much of a pleasure as the high standard of the work as a whole and suggests the potential for more such work in the future.