Introduction: ‘[P]oore Chronicler of a Lord Maior’s naked Truth’? Introducing Middleton’s Theatrical Legacy

William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy

SECTION 1

Critical and Textual Reception

1. Our Other Shakespeare? The Legacy and Controversies of the Oxford Middleton

William David Green

2. Creative Marking: Middleton’s and Crane’s Punctuation in A Game at Chesse

Daniel Yabut

3. The Puritan’s Paper Trail: or, Print, Plays, and Plot-Holes

Sophia Richardson

4. ‘I think it was a shirt; I know not well’: The Depiction and Deception of Linens in The Widow

Lucy Holehouse

SECTION 2

Afterlives and Legacies

5. Roaring Boys: Assembling Masculinity on Middleton’s Stage

Sam Jermy

6. ‘Black, wicked, and unnatural’: Locating Monstrosity in The Revenger’s Tragedy

Deyasini Dasgupta

7. The Uses of the Masque in No Wit, No Help Like a Woman’s Across the Seventeenth Century

Sharon J. Harris

8. Vigilante Irony: Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and Modern Media

Mark Kaethler

9. Teaching The Roaring Girl in a Post-Binary World

Margaret Owens

SECTION 3

Practice and Performance

10. ‘The full scope, the manner, and intent’: Questions of Scale and Context in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Productions of Women Beware Women

Peter Malin

11. The Bloody Banquet in Performance

Claire Kimball and Charlene V. Smith

12. Reconstructing The Sun in Aries: An Interview with Beyond Shakespeare

Anna L. Hegland

13. The Afterlives of Thomas Middleton’s Civic Pageantry

J. Caitlin Finlayson

Afterword: Hearing Middleton

Tracey Hill