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This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King’s Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politic...

This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King’s Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politic...

Abstract. In 1621, in testimony before the House of Lords, Sir Henry Yelverton compared George Villiers, marquis of Buckingham, to Hugh Spencer, one of the

This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King’s Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politics in early modern English drama. Situating these works against the backdrop of the Thirty Years’ War, the Spanish Match, and growing domestic anxiety over foreign policy and confessional identity, the study demonstrates how Middleton used the commercial stage to exploit public political knowledg