"The Oxford Middleton is a monumental achievement...a landmark edition, one that enables us to appreciate afresh an extraordinary literary career." --James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare and Professor of English, Columbia University
"A monumental work of scholarship." - Jonathan Bate, Times Literary Supplement
"Few editorial projects have been as eagerly anticipated as the Oxford Middleton, which will utterly transform how we understand early modern drama, both in the classroom and in our research. As with Shakespeare, Gary Taylor and his team have set a new gold standard for textual editing and interpretive criticism, leaping from the 19th century to the 21st - finally an edition that captures Middleton's tremendous accomplishments." - Henry Turner, Rutgers University, author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630
"All of us who care deeply about the history of English drama welcome with great enthusiasm and excitement the publication of the Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, a major achievement in textual scholarship that represents the collective expertise and critical wisdom of scholars from all over the world. Gary Taylor and his many collaborators have given us a new and remarkably versatile Thomas Middleton--a great tragic playwright, a brilliant creator of sly and cynical urban comedies, a thoroughly gifted man of the theater and citizen of London. With this massive collected edition, the history of English drama is much more complete and we can hope for many more professional productions of these neglected plays." --Gail Paster, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library
Review
"The Oxford Middleton is a monumental achievement...a landmark edition, one that enables us to appreciate afresh an extraordinary literary career." --James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare and Professor of English, Columbia University
"A monumental work of scholarship." - Jonathan Bate, Times Literary Supplement
"Few editorial projects have been as eagerly anticipated as the Oxford Middleton, which will utterly transform how we understand early modern drama, both in the classroom and in our research. As with Shakespeare, Gary Taylor and his team have set a new gold standard for textual editing and interpretive criticism, leaping from the 19th century to the 21st - finally an edition that captures Middleton's tremendous accomplishments." - Henry Turner, Rutgers University, author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630
"All of us who care deeply about the history of English drama welcome with great enthusiasm and excitement the publication of the Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, a major achievement in textual scholarship that represents the collective expertise and critical wisdom of scholars from all over the world. Gary Taylor and his many collaborators have given us a new and remarkably versatile Thomas Middleton--a great tragic playwright, a brilliant creator of sly and cynical urban comedies, a thoroughly gifted man of the theater and citizen of London. With this massive collected edition, the history of English drama is much more complete and we can hope for many more professional productions of these neglected plays." --Gail Paster, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library
Book Description
The Collected Works brings together for the first time in a single volume, now in paperback, all the works currently attributed to Middleton
From the Publisher
Gary Taylor, George Matthew Edgar Professor of English and Director of the program in the History of Text Technologies at Florida State University, was joint General Editor of Shakespeare's Complete Works (Oxford, 1986; revised 2005). He has written or co-written more than a dozen books, including Reinventing Shakespeare, Cultural Selection, Castration, and Buying Whiteness . In 2006 he gave the McKenzie lectures in the history of the book at Oxford University.
John Lavagnino studied physics at Harvard University and American literature at Brandeis University, where he wrote his dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov. He has worked in atmospheric science at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and in electronic publishing for numerous organizations. He is now Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing at King's College London, and is working on the digital Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700.
Associate General Editors
MacDonald P. Jackson
John Jowett
Valerie Wayne
Adrian Weiss
About the Author
Gary Taylor, George Matthew Edgar Professor of English and Director of the program in the History of Text Technologies at Florida State University, was joint General Editor of Shakespeare's Complete Works (Oxford, 1986; revised 2005). He has written or co-written more than a dozen books, including Reinventing Shakespeare, Cultural Selection, Castration, and Buying Whiteness . In 2006 he gave the McKenzie lectures in the history of the book at Oxford University.
John Lavagnino studied physics at Harvard University and American literature at Brandeis University, where he wrote his dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov. He has worked in atmospheric science at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and in electronic publishing for numerous organizations. He is now Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing at King's College London, and is working on the digital Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700.
Associate General Editors
MacDonald P. Jackson
John Jowett
Valerie Wayne
Adrian Weiss
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