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Thomas Middleton,William Rowley

The Changeling

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
The Changeling is Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece. A tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.
Alsemero has fallen in love with the beautiful Beatrice after a chance meeting in a church — but Beatrice has already been promised to another man. Unable to marry the man she loves, she employs the hated De Flores, her father's servant, to murder the man her father bids her marry. As payment, De Flores demands Beatrice. And then things get worse…
Edited and introduced by Trevor Griffiths.
90 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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    Here’s beauty chang’d
    To ugly whoredom; here, servant obedience
    To a master sin, imperious murder;
    I, a suppos’d husband, chang’d embraces
    With wantonness, but that was paid before;
    Your change is come too, from an ignorant wrath
    To knowing friendship. Are there any more on’s
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    I am satisfied, my injuries
    Lie dead before me
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    Tis time to die, when ’tis a shame to live.
    Dies

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