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| | The Theatre In England - The Romantic Drama Of Shakespeare And His Successors (1590-1642) |
 | | In this year he wrote, in collaboration with Marston and Chapman, Eastward Hoe, which caused him various annoyances, for at the instigation of Sir James Murray, a Scottish gentleman, who thought his country insulted by the piece, the King arrested Chapman and Marston. |
 | | Eastward Hoe, which was mentioned above in connection with the collaboration of Ben Jonson, and which dates, like the comedy that preceded it, from 1605, is a criticism of the influence upon the lower classes of the manners of the Court. |
 | | THOMAS MIDDLETON, born in London, 1570, died towards 1627, is famous as the creator of Political Comedy in England but before distinguishing him-self in this vein, he composed a ` Tragi-Coomodie called The Witch,' a play curious inasmuch as it includes some of the facts contained in Shakespeare's Macbeth. |
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