This is the first study of Thomas Middleton to emphasise the significance of his collaborative relationships, and stresses in turn the intertextual elements of his plays, pageants, poems, and pamphlets.
In England his novels are always bestsellers, yet for the last decade this American literary master has not been published in his own country. No longer! Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue displays the same plainspoken power that has dazzled Purdy's devoted audience for decades. The story of a woman's struggle ...
