Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
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A Jacobean gore-fest of enforced seduction and ultimate revenge.
Written in 1623, two years after The Changeling, Women Beware Women is the second of Thomas Middleton's two great tragedies. It is the story of the corruption of three young people, seduced and destroyed by the lust and treachery of the court of the Duke of Florence.
This edition, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is edited and Introduced by Colin Counsell.