A Mad World My Masters (Oberon Modern Plays)
By Thomas Middleton.
Description
Thomas Middleton’s outrageous city comedy’: a brilliantly plotted, farcical satire of lies and lust, translated from Jacobean London to the Soho of the 1950s.A dashingly impecunious bachelor, Dick Follywit, in need of quick cash and a good time has to live on his wits so turns con-man to fool his rich uncle. He variously becomes a Lord, a high-class call girl and a poor actor. Meanwhile, Truly Kidman, a high-class call girl poor but quick-witted needs to fool and then marry a rich young man. Sean Foley and Phil Porter’s edited version of Middleton’s play is fait...
ISBN(s)
1783190191, 9781783190195
