Timon of Athens: the life of Timon of Athens

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Introduction -- Date of Composition -- The Structure of a Theatre Work: Acts and Scenes -- Early Staging: Possibilities -- Plutarch and Lucian -- Satire and Tragedy -- Misanthropy -- Giving and Sacrifice -- Male and Female -- Debt -- Gold -- The Iron Age -- Mammon -- Friends -- Alcibiades -- Apemantus -- Thieves -- Steward -- Poet and Painter -- Four Words, Three Epitaphs -- 'The Man-hater' and After -- Modern Worlds: Britain -- Modern Worlds: Europe -- Modern Worlds: North America -- Timon: Approaches to the Role -- Staging the Masque -- Staging the Alcibiades Plot -- 'Timon of Athens' on Television -- Text -- A Divided Play -- Middleton's Hand -- Shakespeare and Middleton -- Editorial Procedures -- Text and Collation -- Commentary -- Abbreviations and References -- Appendix A: Alterations to Lineation -- Appendix B: Narrative Source Materials -- Appendix C: Tabulation of Forms Favoured by Middleton -- Appendix D: Major Productions -- Index.;Timon of Athens is an bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave. This edition offers an up-to-date commentary on the play that is more detailed and more thorough than any previously published, as well as a detailed discussion of Thomas Middleton's collaboration with Shakespeare. - ;Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to desp. Introduction -- Date of Composition -- The Structure of a Theatre Work: Acts and Scenes -- Early Staging: Possibilities -- Plutarch and Lucian -- Satire and Tragedy -- Misanthropy -- Giving and Sacrifice -- Male and Female -- Debt -- Gold -- The Iron Age -- Mammon -- Friends -- Alcibiades -- Apemantus -- Thieves -- Steward -- Poet and Painter -- Four Words, Three Epitaphs -- 'The Man-hater' and After -- Modern Worlds: Britain -- Modern Worlds: Europe -- Modern Worlds: North America -- Timon: Approaches to the Role -- Staging the Masque -- Staging the Alcibiades Plot -- 'Timon of Athens' on Television -- Text -- A Divided Play -- Middleton's Hand -- Shakespeare and Middleton -- Editorial Procedures -- Text and Collation -- Commentary -- Abbreviations and References -- Appendix A: Alterations to Lineation -- Appendix B: Narrative Source Materials -- Appendix C: Tabulation of Forms Favoured by Middleton -- Appendix D: Major Productions -- Index.