A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
by Thomas Middleton

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Book Cover
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Cover

Highlights

British

Synopsis

Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613,

this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature

even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in

London's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake.

Money is more

important than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted

commodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige.

Middleton

interweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marry

their children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any more

for fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their property

in the family.

Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to a

rich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony.

Like

many early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this play

warned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country

produces.

Publication

Publisher
New Mermaid
Year Published
2002
ISBN 10
0713650680
ISBN 13
9780713650686
Binding
Paperback
Edition
2
Print Length
144 pages
Place Published
London
Language
English
eISBN 13
9781408144558
Print
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is a British play written by and published by New Mermaid in London, 2002. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780713650686 and an ISBN-10 of 0713650680.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle Apple Books Google Play with an ISBN-13 of 9781408144558.

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