Methuen Drama, 2002

New Mermaids

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (23), Female (10), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is Middleton’s masterpiece of Jacobean city comedy, rich in irony and wordplay. Middleton welds together the themes of corruption, money and sex into a complex whole, in which comedy is mingled with disgust...

Oberon Books, 2013

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (6), Unassigned (2)

...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...

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...Year of Release: 1993 Bob Hoskins (The Lost World) stars in Simon Curtis' production of this vengeful Jacobean drama. Beatrice is to marry Alonzo. Days before the wedding, she meets Alsemero and realises she cannot live without him. She...

Methuen Drama, 1994

New Mermaids

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (21), Female (9), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...A lurid and sensational tragicomedy, Thomas Middleton portrays a court mired in sexual intrigue and deception, and the gruesome witch who keeps them well supplied with love charms and poisons. At the start of the play...