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Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627) Michaelmas Terme.
London: Printed by T[homas] H[arper] for R. Meighen, 1630.
Second edition, quarto, a clean copy with headlines, catchwords, and signature marks intact; bound in full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; purchased from Seven Gables in 1969, minor spot to final leaf; 7 x 4 3/4 in.
STC 17891; Greg I 244 (b); Pforzheimer 699; ESTC S112590.
As a Jacobean-era poet and playwright, Middleton, along with Jonson and Fletcher, saw great success in numerous produced and published works of comedy, tragedy, and satire. He also authored masques and pageants. Middleton's work has garnered the praise of modern commentators and continues to be produced in our century. The present work is a satire. "With its witty, bawdy dialogue and complex gulling action, the play offers an unusually cynical assessment of the social and familial displacements, and of the alienation and loss of cultural memory, so characteristic of life in the great metropolis of early modern London." (For more see: https://www.concordtheatricals.co.uk/s/47626/michaelmas-term-thomas-middleton)
