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A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton (Paperback, 2002)
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Money is more important than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted commodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Like many early modern critics of Londons enormous growth this play warned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country produces.
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Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in London's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is more important than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted commodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middleton interweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marry their children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any more for fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their property in the family. Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to a rich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony. Like many early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this play warned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country produces.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139780713650686
eBay Product ID (ePID)86561646
Product Key Features
Book TitleA Chaste Maid in Cheapside
AuthorThomas Middleton
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature, Plays
Publication Year2002
Number of Pages144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight167g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorThomas Middleton
Series TitleNew Mermaids
EditorAlan Brissenden
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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