Five Plays (Penguin Classics)

Thomas Middleton was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

• Dr. Faustus
• The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair (Oxford World's Classics)
• Grettir's Saga (Heritage)
• The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• The Winter's Tale (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics)