Thomas Middleton
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Family name
- Middleton
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- dramaturge
- Educated at
- The Queen's College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Middletn.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1580-04-18
- Commons Creator page
- Thomas Middleton
- Commons category
- Thomas Middleton
- date of death
- 1627-07-02
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Middleton, depicted in the frontispiece of Two New Plays, a 1657 edition of Women Beware Women and More Dissemblers Besides Women Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among the few to gain equal success in comedy and tragedy. He was also a prolific writer of masques and pageants.
Life
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