A Mad World My Masters

A Mad World My Masters PDF Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783195185
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
Thomas Middleton’s outrageous ‘city comedy’: a brilliantly plotted, farcical satire of lies and lust, translated from Jacobean London to the Soho of the 1950s. A dashingly impecunious bachelor, Dick Follywit, in need of quick cash and a good time has to live on his wits so turns con-man to fool his rich uncle. He variously becomes a Lord, a high-class call girl and a poor actor. Meanwhile, Truly Kidman, a high-class call girl – poor but quick-witted – needs to fool and then marry a rich young man... Sean Foley and Phil Porter’s edited version of Middleton’s play is faithful to the original text but adapts it to fit the seedy world of 1950s Soho, updating character names and including songs of the time to enhance the biting satire of lust and deception in the life of Bohemian London.

A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays:

A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays: PDF Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192834553
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Michaelmas term: Cast gender - mixed; number - 19 males, 7 females (total 16); size - large; length - 5 acts, 18 scenes. Elizabethan drama. Property swindling of country landowner by city merchant.

A Mad World, My Masters

A Mad World, My Masters PDF Author: Barrie Keeffe
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description

A mad world, my Masters

A mad world, my Masters PDF Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Il Nuovo Melangolo
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description

A Mad World, My Masters

A Mad World, My Masters PDF Author: John Simpson
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 033051640X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson has been to them all. This hugely successful volume of writing is a celebration of some of the world's wilder places. His extraordinary experiences include stories about a television camera that killed people, about how Colonel Gadhaffi farted his way through an interview and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen. 'Highly entertaining' The Times 'What amazing tales he has to tell, and with what enthralling vividness . . . Riveting' Daily Mail 'The range of his travels is staggering . . . Never less than entertaining, sometimes moving and often funny' Sunday Telegraph

A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays

A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays PDF Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780199555413
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciting period of theatrical activity in the history of English drama. Best known for his tragedies, he also wrote many successful comedies of city life, and this volume offers the greatest among them. Includes: A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; A Trick to Catch the Old One; No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's.

A Mad World, My Masters

A Mad World, My Masters PDF Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Best known for his tragedies, he also wrote many successful comedies of city life. This volume brings together four of the finest: A Mad World, My Masters, Michaelmas Term, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's. The first three plays, written between 1604 and 1606, are witty and rambunctious satires on the predatory life of the aspiring London citizen. Sex and money are the characters' obsessions; their caustic exposure Middleton's.
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