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...Thomas Middleton was the rebel of English Renaissance drama. Audiences adored how his plays went right to the limits - his sex was dirty, his violence grisly, his politics risky. His work was so popular in his time that it broke box-office records at London's Globe theater. But over the centuries, thanks to censorship and Victorian prudery, he fell out of fashion. By the time the world was ready again for Middleton's R-rated brand of theater, Shakespeare reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion of English literature, knocking everyone else to the margins of the curriculum and away...
...Middleton (1580-1627) may finally win the reputation he deserves. On Nov. 22, Oxford University Press publishes Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works, the first time all his plays, poems and manuscripts have appeared in a single volume. The timing of this 2,016-page monument couldn't be better. Academic interest in Middleton has burgeoned since the 1900s as scholars have discovered that the more time passes, the more relevant his work becomes. "When you read Middleton, you get the sense that the world he wrote about is the world we live in now, with all the moral dilemmas...
Until now, though, only a handful of Middleton's plays have been in print at any one time; English teachers could slip one into a course on Shakespeare's contemporaries, and theaters could dust a few of them off every couple of years, but nothing more. Taylor was convinced that the only way to get Middleton his groove back was to collect everything he ever wrote in one book, giving people the choice they never had before. He was so convinced that, along with co-editor John Lavagnino and 73 other contributors - who helped edit the texts and wrote critical...
...support group meeting last week, I realized I was feeling despondent about the way a friendship was ending. "Is my depression making a comeback?" I asked myself. No. I was simply grieving appropriately, and this too has already begun to pass. Brian Middleton, Ardmore, Pennsylvania...
...Beijing has refused to join the Mekong River Commission, which was formed 12 years ago by four other riparian nations. (Burma is also not a member.) "I think China doesn't want to join the commission because then there will be environmental expectations," says the International River Network's Middleton. "But when the biggest country at the source of the river isn't part of the commission, it makes the group basically toothless...