[Middleton Thomas] — The Second Maiden's Tragedy

VG : in very good condition with glassine dust jacket. Ink mark and inscription to upper edge of front pastedown. Some pages uncut Oxford The Malone Society Reprint 230mm x 190mm (9" x 7"). xiii, 78pp. Printed for the Malone Society by Horace Hart at the Oxford University Press 1909. The Second Maiden's Tragedy is a Jacobean play that survives only in manuscript. It was written in 1611, and performed in the same year by the King's Men. The manuscript was acquired, but never printed, by the publisher Humphrey Moseley after the closure of the theatres in 1642. In 1807, the manuscript was acquired by the British Museum. Victorian poet and critic, Algernon Swinburne, was the first to attribute this work to Thomas Middleton; this judgement has since been joined by most editors and scholars.