Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Middleton (English Dramatist)

Thomas Middleton (c.1580–1627,) also spelled Midleton, was an English Jacobean dramatist and poet who achieved equal success in comedy and tragedy. He is best known for the tragedies The Changeling (1622; written with the playwright William Rowley) and Women Beware Women (1620–27.)

Born in Newington Butts, Surrey, Middleton was the son of a bricklayer. By 1600, he had spent two years at Oxford and had published three books of verse. He learned to write plays by collaborating with Thomas Dekker, John Webster, and others for the producer Philip Henslowe. He published Father Hubbard’s Tale and The Black Book, exposing London rogues, in 1604. Middleton wrote The Honest Whore (1904) with Thomas Dekker.

Along with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, Middleton was among the most successful and prolific of the Jacobean playwrights. His other early works include A Mad World, My Masters (1608,) from which playwright Aphra Behn pilfered freely for her The City Heiress. The Roaring Girl (1611; written with Dekker) idealizes the character of a noted cutpurse and virago.

Middleton was repeatedly employed to write the Lord Mayor’s pageant. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside was probably produced in 1613, as was No Wit, No Help like a Woman’s. A Fair Quarrel (1617) and The World lost at Tennis (1620) were written in cooperation with William Rowley.

In 1620, Middleton was appointed city chronologer, and a manuscript Chronicle by him was extant in the 18th century. A Game of Chess, a curious and skilful play, was acted in 1624. Three posthumously published plays, The Changeling, The Spanish Gypsy, and Women Beware Women, include some of his best writing.

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Who loves law, dies either mad or poor.
Thomas Middleton
Topics: Law

He travels best that knows when to return.
Thomas Middleton

Virtue itself offends when coupled with forbidding manners.
Thomas Middleton
Topics: Manners

The treasures of the deep are not so precious as are the concealed comforts of a man locked up in woman’s love: I scent the air of blessings when I come but near the house.
Thomas Middleton
Topics: Marriage, Love

There’s no hate lost between us.
Thomas Middleton
Topics: Hate

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