Middleton and Shakespeare

In Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, collaborations between playwrights were normal practice and a play script was considered a living, malleable document, which could be adapted to suit changing tastes! Young Thomas Middleton was entrusted with adaptations of Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well and Macbeth, included in Shakespeare’s First Folio, 1623, where the plays were printed for the first time.

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