10 Best classics books like A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton

Cover of A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton

A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays

By: Thomas Middleton

3.32

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatis…

If you liked the classics plot in A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of A Woman Killed With Kindness by Thomas Heywood

1. A Woman Killed With Kindness

By: Thomas Heywood

3.29

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume Th… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed With Kindness book and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays

  • classics
  • drama
Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Cover of Gallathea (Malone Society Reprints , No 161) by John Lyly

3. Gallathea (Malone Society Reprints , No 161)

By: John Lyly

3.86

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

This is a photographic facsimile of John Lyly's comedy Gallathea, printed in 1592, taken from the c… read more

Similar categories in John Lyly's Gallathea (Malone Society Reprints , No 161) book and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays

  • classics
  • drama
Cover of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John  Ford, Martin Wiggins

4. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

By: John Ford , Martin Wiggins

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most controversal plays in drama literature, this play's treatment of the subject of inc… read more

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  • classics
  • drama
Cover of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Richard Andrews, Rex Gibson

5. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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  • classics
"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Cover of The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman's Prize by Gary Taylor, John Fletcher, Celia R. Daileader

6. The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman's Prize

By: Gary Taylor , John Fletcher , Celia R. Daileader

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's… read more

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  • classics
  • drama
Cover of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

7. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.50

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Lawrence's frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of its ce… read more

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  • classics
"We fucked a flame into being."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

8. The Tragedy of Mariam

By: Elizabeth Cary

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Stephanie Hodgson-Wright's excellent edition of this important work is the most user-friendly avai… read more

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Cover of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, None

9. The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

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  • classics
  • drama
"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

10. Bartholomew Fair

By: Ben Jonson , None

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bartholomew Fairis the climactic play of Ben Jonson's great comic period. Using the fair as a symbo… read more

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11. The Witch of Edmonton

By: John Ford , Thomas Dekker , William Rowley

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics i… read more

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12. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's Macbeth book and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays

  • classics
"What, you egg?"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done, is done"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"And nothing is, but what is not."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Cover of Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid by John Fletcher

13. Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid

By: John Fletcher

3.87

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's comedy Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615) is an innovativ… read more

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14. The Island Princess

By: John Fletcher

3.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

New RSC Classics series highlights rarely performed Tudor and Jacobean plays. read more

Similar categories in John Fletcher's The Island Princess book and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays

  • classics
  • drama
Cover of A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton

15. A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays

By: Thomas Middleton

3.32

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatis… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays book and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays

  • classics
  • drama

7 must-read drama books like A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton

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A Woman Killed With Kindness

Thomas Heywood

3.29

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Gallathea (Malone Society Reprints , No 161)

John Lyly

3.86

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'Tis Pity She's a Whore

John Ford , Martin Wiggins

4.17

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The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman's Prize

Gary Taylor , John Fletcher , Celia R. Daileader

3.65

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14 Best fiction books like The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

2.50

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Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.63

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