Article: Middleton, 'The Revenger's Tragedy,' and crisis literature. (Thomas Middleton)

The question of who wrote The Revenger's Tragedy has experienced a tortured history. Since 1926, when E. H. C. Oliphant compiled his tentative speculations favoring Thomas Middleton's authorship, evidence has been collected demonstrating to a near certainty that the play is Middleton's, yet editors and critics, perhaps out of timidity or lethargy or ignorance or some sort of aesthetic or other scruple, continue to credit Cyril Tourneur. Placing The Revenger's Tragedy in the context of Thomas Middleton's canon, however, strengthens the conjectures regarding Middleton's place as an early literary critic. The artistic temperament revealed in Middleton's Revenger's Tragedy is ...

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