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Thomas Middleton

English playwright and poet

6 dated entries naming Thomas Middleton, drawn from 6 separate years between 1580 CE and 1657 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1580April 18 – (baptism) Thomas Middleton, English playwright (d. 1627)source
  • 1599June 1 – Bishops' Ban of 1599: The Archbishop of Canterbury, John Whitgift, and the Bishop of London, Richard Bancroft order a ban on a selection of literary works, including Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires, by Thomas Middleton.source

17th century

  • 1616Latest probable date of Thomas Middleton composition of The Witch, a tragicomedy that may have entered into the present-day text of Shakespeare's Macbeth.source
  • 1624August 5 – The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre in London. The performances are suppressed on August 14 in view of the play's allusions to the Spanish Match.source
  • 1627July 4 (bur.) – Thomas Middleton, English playwright (b. 1580)source
  • 1657Thomas Middleton's tragedy Women Beware Women (c. 1623–24) is published posthumously in London.source

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