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Publisher: London, VizetellyPublication date: 1887Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Middleton and his Collaborators explores the career of one of the most prominent and versatile writers of the early seventeenth century. Throughout his working life Thomas Middleton worked in collaboration with several contemporaries notably Thomas Dekker, William Shakespeare, and William Rowley. The book devotes chapters to each, and examines in detail Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl, his intertextual relations with Shakespeare, and arguably his masterpiece, The Changeling, written with Rowley. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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One of the best experiences of my life
I am the writer of this book.Few read the book, and probaly fewer if any will read this review.Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed writing the book, just as I thoroughly enjoyed Middleton's comedies.Middleton had a terrific sardonic vision and was a master of timing, as well as an astute student of human nature.Starting out writing somewhat dyspeptic and straitened tracts that were odd mixtures of strict satire and some whimsy, he gradually lightened up and wrote a series of plays that are architectural, funny and insightful at the same time.He was a master of the multiple plot.The plots would set off varieties of greed, lust and other human failings.But Middleton would never fail to rescue the more innocent (read younger) of his characters at the end of the play. I understand that one or two of these plays have been put on in London in recent years.Good.Middleton is almost 400 years dead (d.1626), but what he said about human failings and the humorous way in which he said it has life in it yet.Read my book to learn more about it. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Crostic Connoisseurs, It's Time to Meet Your Match!

Simon & Schuster presents a stunning new collection of 185 classic crostic puzzles from the legendary Thomas Middleton series! Selected from out-of-print books, these delightful brainteasers will challenge even the savviest crostic aficionados.

Crostics are a lot like crosswords, but even more fun. The clues are somewhat trickier. And then there's the treat at the end of each puzzle: when you've completely filled in the grid, a passage from a well-known author is revealed.

So sharpen your pencil, put on your thinking cap, and get ready for hours of exciting puzzling. Simon & Schuster's Super Crostics Series #6 is guaranteed to break your brain and leave you smarting for more. ... Read more

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Lots of pencil fun
Contains plenty of crostics, which are one of my favorites. I haven't made a dent in their number, yet. The only problem is the perforations to tear out a puzzle. They occasionally separate the final clue and word from the rest of the puzzle.

Binding
Haven't used it yet but was disappointed that I didn't pick up in the description that it wasn't spiral bound.Lots of puzzles but working with it will be annoying.Not sure, but I thought the paper stock was not as heavy as spiral bound crostics.I have a feeling I'll have to forego half the puzzles because of that.

My bad!!!

The best collection of Middleton's puzzles thus far
This is the very best collection of Middleton's crostic puzzles that I have ever encountered. (And I have done a lot of his puzzles over the years.) ... Read more

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Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is not only a companion to The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, which every scholar of Renaissance literature will find indispensable. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the book in early modern Europe.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part, on The Culture, situates Middleton within an historical and theoretical overview of early modern textual production, reproduction, circulation, and reception. An introductory essay by Gary Taylor (The Order of Persons) surveys lists of persons written by or connected to Middleton, using the complex relationship between textual and social orders to trace the evolution of textual culture in England during the Middleton century (1580-1679). Ten original essays then focus on Middletons connections to different aspects of textual culture in that century: authorship (by MacD. P. Jackson), manuscripts (Harold Love), legal texts (Edward Geiskes), censorship (Richard Burt), printing (Adrian Weiss), visual texts (John Astington), music (Andrew Sabol), stationers and living authors (Cyndia Clegg), posthumous publishing (Maureen Bell), and early readers (John Jowett).

The rest of the volume, supplies the documentation for claims made in the first part. Part II, the author includes detailed evidence for the canon and chronology of Middleton's works in all genres, greatly extending previous scholarship, and using the latest corpus-based attribution techniques. This section situates individual authorial agency in the space between larger institutional forces and the material specificity of particular textual embodiments. Part III, The Texts, contains a full editorial apparatus for each item in The Collected Works: an Introduction, which summarizes and extends previous scholarship, is followed by textual notes, recording substantive departures from the control-text, variants between early texts, press-variants, discussions of emendations, and (for plays) an exact transcription of all original stage directions. Cross-references make it easy to move between the two volumes.

This authoritative account of the early texts includes some extraordinarily complicated cases, which have never before been systematically collated: Hence, all you vain delights (the most popular song lyric from the Renaissance stage), The Two Gates of Salvation, The Peacemaker, and A Game at Chess (the most complex editorial problem in early modern drama, with eight extant texts and numerous reports of the early performances). ... Read more

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Maid Sleep, Sweet Babe: Sorrow Makes Thy Mother Sleep. It Bodes Small Good When [heaven] Falls So Deep. Hush, Pretty Boy, Thy Hopes Might Have Been Better; 'tis Lost At Dice What Ancient Honours Won, Hard When The Father Plays Away The Son; Nothing But Misery Serves In This House. ... Read more

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A collection of challenging and entertaining word games by Thomas Middleton who for many years supplied the Double-Crostics and the column 'Light Refractions' for "The Saturday Review". He also contributed the column 'Take My Word' to the "Los Angeles Times". ... Read more

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HELVETIUS Think? You come too late If you seek there for me. I know't and see't. I'll sooner give my blessing to a drunkard, Whom the ridiculous power of wine makes humble As foolish use makes thee. Base-spirited girl, That canst not think above disgrace and beggary. ... Read more

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Collections of quality acrostic puzzles are rather infrequent, so fans eagerly snatch them up when they come out. This latest has two hundred acrostic puzzles from the pages of the Sunday New York Times Magazine written by master of the genre Thomas H. Middleton. ... Read more

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Great Solving!
I received this book a couple weeks ago and have been hooked on it!The puzzles are much more challenging than the ones Middleton creates for other publications.Warning--these have not been proofread very carefully; there are lots of errors (nearly one per puzzle)in the numbering/correspondence between grid and word list.Also, the type face sure wasn't chosen for its readability--the grid is "over-inked" and hard to read, and the numbers in the word list are very tiny.Despite this, they are still excellent solving.The book would have benefited by being spiral bound.One has to tear out (no perforations) each puzzle to be able to solve it. ... Read more

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My Adversary Evermore Twits Me With My Nephew, Forsooth, My Nephew; Why May Not A Virtuous Uncle Have A Dissolute Nephew? What Though He Be A Brotheller, A Wastethrift, A Common Surfeiter, And, To Conclude, A Beggar; Must Sin In Him Call Up Shame In Me? Since We Have No Part In Their Follies, Why Should We Have Part In Their Infamies? For My Strict Hand Toward His Mortgage, That I Deny Not, I Confess I Had An Uncle's Pen'worth. ... Read more

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More than any other individual, Edison was responsible for introducing the modern age of electricity. But as well as pioneering the first commercial electric light and power system, he also invented the phonograph, the microphone and an early movie camera. His gripping story is one of determination and triumph.

Other titles in the series:
Alexander the Great
Amelia Earhart
Captain Cook
Cleopatra
Eric the Red
Galileo
Gandhi
Hans Christian Andersen
Henry Ford
Roald Dahl
William Shakespeare ... Read more