15 Facts About Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet.

Thomas Middleton was a prolific writer of masques and pageants.

Thomas Middleton was the son of a bricklayer, who had raised himself to the status of a gentleman and owned property adjoining the Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch.

Thomas Middleton attended The Queen's College, Oxford, matriculating in 1598, but he did not graduate.

Unlike Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton remained a free agent, able to write for whichever company hired him.

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Thomas Middleton continued to collaborate with Dekker: the two produced The Roaring Girl, a biography of the contemporary thief Mary Frith.

Thomas Middleton became increasingly involved with civic pageants, and in 1620 became officially appointed as chronologist to the City of London, a post he held until his death in 1627, when it passed to Jonson.

Such official duties did not interrupt Thomas Middleton's dramatic writing; the 1620s saw the production of his and Rowley's tragedy The Changeling, and of several tragicomedies.

The old churchyard where Thomas Middleton was buried survives as a public park in Elephant and Castle.

Thomas Middleton wrote in many genres, including tragedy, history and city comedy.

Thomas Middleton's best-known plays are the tragedies The Changeling and Women Beware Women, and the cynically satirical city comedy A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.

Thomas Middleton did not have the kind of official relationship with a particular company that Shakespeare or Fletcher had.

Thomas Middleton's plays are marked by often amusingly presented cynicism about the human race.

When Thomas Middleton does portray good people, the characters have small roles and are shown as flawless.

Thomas Middleton's plays were staged throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, each decade offering more productions than the last.