SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Thomas Middleton

»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.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

The Changeling (With William Rowley)

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K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 17^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape | Representations: Literary Texts: William Rowley

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Burks, Deborah G. »"I’ll want my will else". The Changeling and women’s complicity with their rapists.« ELH 62 (1995): 759-790.

[Info] Burks, Deborah G. »"I’ll want my will else". The Changeling and women’s complicity with their rapists.« Revenge tragedy. Edited by Stevie Simkins. London 2001: 163-189.

[Info] Dolan, Frances E. »Re-reading Rape in The Changeling.« Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 11 (2011): 4-29.

[Info] Fernández Soto, Alba. “Tis a Shame to Live”: The Loss of Feminine Virtue and “la Honra” in the Stage Plays of the Golden Age in England and Spain. Tesis, Universidad de Valladolid, 2025.

[Info] Haber, Judith. »"I(t) could not choose but follow": Erotic Logic in The Changeling.« Representations No. 81 (2003): 79-98.

[Info] Macomber, Lynnette. Sexual Iconoclasm in Early Modern Drama. Honors Thesis, University of New Hampshire, 2013.

[Info] Piraino, Annaliese B. »Rape, Possession and the Law in Thomas Middleton's and The Changeling.« Excursions 4 (2013).

[Info] Simkin, Stevie. Early modern tragedy and the cinema of violence. Basingstoke 2006.

[Info] Solga, Kim. Invisible Acts: Performing Violence Against Women in Early Modern and Contemporary Drama in English. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2004.

[Info] Solga, Kim. Invisible acts. Witnessing violence against women in early modern performance. Basingstoke 2009.

[Info] Stahl, Amy L. Blasting binaries and humanizing humans. Thomas Middleton’s feminism. M.A. Thesis, Florida State University, 2007.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Burks, Deborah G. »The Changeling and Jacobean Rape Law.« Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference. Rochester 1994.

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

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K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 17^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Ekholm, Jennifer. Excitable Boys: Male Dominance and Female Sexuality in Aphra Behn's The Rover and Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. B.A. Thesis, Scripps College, 2018.

[Info] Hotz-Davies, Ingrid. »A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Women Beware Women. Feminism, antifeminism, and the limitations of satire.« Cahiers élisabéthains No. 39 (1991): 29-39.

II. Speaker Index

The Ghost of Lucrece

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K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 17^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Cases: Mythological Victims: Lucretia | Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Daileader, Celia R. »“Writing Rape, Raping Rites”: Shakespeare’s and Middleton’s Lucrece Poems.« Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England. Edited by Joseph P. Ward. New York 2008: 67-89.

[Info] Gathern. Cara. Testament, Gender and Agency in Early Modern Revisions of the ‘Lucretia’ Narrative. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Brighton, 2024.

[Info] Swärdh, Anna. Rape and Religion in English Renaissance Literature: A Topical Study of Four Texts by Shakespeare, Drayton, and Middleton. Uppsala 2003.

II. Speaker Index

Hengist, King of Kent

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K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 17^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Bamford, Karen. Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage. Basingstoke 2000.

[Info] Bretz, Andrew. Emergent Identity: Masculinity and the Representation of Rape on the Early Modern Stage, 1590-1620. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Guelph, 2012.

II. Speaker Index

The Lady's Tragedy

I n f o r m a t i o n

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 17^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Stahl, Amy L. Blasting binaries and humanizing humans. Thomas Middleton’s feminism. M.A. Thesis, Florida State University, 2007.

II. Speaker Index

No Help like a Woman's

I n f o r m a t i o n

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 17^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Stahl, Amy L. Blasting binaries and humanizing humans. Thomas Middleton’s feminism. M.A. Thesis, Florida State University, 2007.

II. Speaker Index

The Revenger's Tragedy

I n f o r m a t i o n

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 17^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Bamford, Karen. Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage. Basingstoke 2000.

[Info] Willis, Charisse. Gendering Violence: Re-thinking Coercion and Consent in Early Modern English Literature. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan, 2019.

II. Speaker Index

The Roaring Girl; No Wit

I n f o r m a t i o n

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 17^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Stahl, Amy L. Blasting binaries and humanizing humans. Thomas Middleton’s feminism. M.A. Thesis, Florida State University, 2007.

II. Speaker Index

The Spanish Gypsy (With William Rowley)

I n f o r m a t i o n

K e y w o r d s

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Bamford, Karen. Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage. Basingstoke 2000.

[Info] Bamford, Karen. »Rape and Redemption in The Spanish Gypsy.« Women, Violence, and English Renaissance Literature: Essays Honoring Paul Jorgensen. Edited by Linda Woodbridge et al. Tempe 2003: 29-49.

II. Speaker Index

Women Beware Women

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K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 17^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Biggs, Murray. »Does the Duke rape Bianca in Middleton’s Women Beware Women?« Notes and queries 44 (1997): 97-100.

[Info] Bromham A.A. »"A plaque will come". Art, rape, and venereal disease in Middleton’s Women Beware Women.« Entertext 3 (2003): 145-160.

[Info] Dawson, Anthony B. »Women Beware Women and the economy of rape.« Studies in English literature, 1500-1900 27 (1987): 303-320.

[Info] Detmar-Goebel, Emily. »What more could woman do? Dramatizing consent in Heywood’s Rape of Lucrece and Middleton’s Women Beware Women.« Women’s studies 36 (2007): 141-159.

[Info] Heller, Jennifer L. »Space, violence, and bodies in Middleton and Cary.« Studies in English literature 1500-1900 45 (2005): 425-441.

[Info] Hotz-Davies, Ingrid. »A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Women Beware Women. Feminism, antifeminism, and the limitations of satire.« Cahiers élisabéthains No. 39 (1991): 29-39.

[Info] Hutchings, Mark. »Middleton’s Women Beware Women. Rape, seduction – or power, simply?« Notes and queries 45 (1998): 366-367.

[Info] MacGregor, Catherine. »Undoing the body politic. Representing rape in Women Beware Women.« Theatre research international 23 (1998): 14-23.

[Info] Piraino, Annaliese B. »Rape, Possession and the Law in Thomas Middleton's and The Changeling.« Excursions 4 (2013).

II. Speaker Index