Sir thomas middleton biography
Thomas middleton biography...
Thomas Middleton
English playwright and poet (–)
This article is about the playwright.
Sir thomas middleton biography
For other uses, see Thomas Middleton (disambiguation).
Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April – July ; 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
Middleton was born in London and baptised on 18 April He 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.
Middleton was five when his father died and his mother's subsequent remarriage dissolved into a year battle over the inheritance of Thomas and his younger sister – an experience that informed him about the legal system and may have incited his repeated satire against the le