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Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among the few to gain equal success in comedy and tragedy.
Thomas Middleton (born April? 1580, London, Eng.—died July 4, 1627, Newington Butts, Surrey) was a late-Elizabethan dramatist who drew people as he saw them, with comic gusto or searching irony. By 1600 Middleton had spent two years at Oxford and had published three books of verse.
Thomas Middleton was one of the most prolific Jacobean playwrights, rivaled only by John Fletcher. Like Shakespeare, MIddleton was equally at home with comedy and tragedy and with Shakespeare, Fletcher and Ben Jonson he was at the top of the popularity poll.
Thomas Middleton (1580 – 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet who is notable for his mastery of English prosody and his deeply cynical and ironic characterizations.
During his career Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) produced a pretty spectacular canon of plays: spectacular in quantity, quality, and scope. It's no surprise that Middleton excelled at plays of social intrigue, given that it was part of his life from a young age.
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) —‘our other Shakespeare’—is the only other Renaissance playwright to create acknowledged masterpieces of comedy, tragedy, and history. His revolutionary English history play, A Game at Chess, was also the greatest box-office hit of early modern London.
Jun 11, 2018 · The English playwright Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most productive and talented playwrights of the Jacobean period. His best work was done in "city comedy"—comedy of intrigue with emphasis on the more lurid features of contemporary London.
