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...stuff of fantasy: a charming prince arrives at his girlfriend's rural English estate, swooping in on his trusty steed. But when Prince William flew a Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter to Kate Middleton's garden earlier this month, he should have known that his romantic gesture wouldn't lead to a fairytale ending. Rather than emerging as the knight in shining armor, William has drawn criticism for his personal use of military craft and reopened a controversy in Britain about his and his brother's privileged role in the armed forces during a time...
...wonder he has been censored for centuries. Indeed, it began when he was 19: Middleton's poem Microcynicon (1599) was burned in the yard of St. Paul's cathedral by order of the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury. We don't know why, but it includes a description of the poet's relationship with a male transvestite, or "black hermaphrodite": "But truth to tell a man or woman whether,/ I cannot say, she's excellent in either...
Metrosexual Middleton's work was not only unteachable in English classrooms, but virtually unperformable on the English stage from the end of the 17th century until the 1960s. In 1962, the first professional revival of Women, Beware Women (by the Royal Shakespeare Company) was produced at the Arts Theatre, a private club, because the Lord Chamberlain would not license it for "public" performance...
...doubt that Middleton equals Shakespeare, now you can read one book, The Collected Works, and judge for yourself. But be warned: like his character Beatrice, you may be unexpectedly seduced, and discover that bad boy Middleton is "a wondrous necessary...
Gary Taylor is co-editor of Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works