Thomas Middleton
English playwright and poet (1580–1627) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the playwright. For other uses, see Thomas Middleton (disambiguation).
Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among the few to gain equal success in comedy and tragedy. He was also a prolific writer of masques and pageants.