Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a poet and playwright of the English Renaissance, who flourished during the Jacobean Era (1603-1625). #History #ThomasMiddleton #AGameAtChess #EnglishRenaissance #JacobeanTheatre #TheChangeling #ThomasDekker #TimonOfAthens #WilliamShakespeare #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24469-en/

Banned 400 years ago this month because the British crown really didn’t want to go to war with Spain again, and still problematic as hell today because it’s basically an anti-Catholic hate crime in the form of a stage play, this was nevertheless huge fun to perform.
Possibly I am a bad person.
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