WRITER

Thomas Middleton

1580 - 1627

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Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among the few to gain equal success in comedy and tragedy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Middleton has received more than 331,904 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Thomas Middleton is the 4,648th most popular writer (down from 4,283rd in 2019), the 3,334th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,175th in 2019) and the 376th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Chast mayd in Cheape-side
1630
Works
1840
Thomas Middleton
Accessible book
1887
Women beware women
Drama, Great Britain Civil War, 1642-1649, History
1941
A faire quarrell
1617
The changeling
Drama, Fiction, Drama texts: 16th to 18th centuries
Considered by critics to be one of the best tragedies of the English Renaissance, The Changeling was written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley and first published in book form in 1653. Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to Alonzo but in love with Alsemero. She convinces De Flores, who is in love with her, to help her be free of Alonzo - by murdering him. In a comic sub-plot, Alibius' young wife Isabella has two admirers, Franciscus and Antonio, who pretend to be madmen in order to see her.
1653

Page views of Thomas Middletons by language

Over the past year Thomas Middleton has had the most page views in the with 39,423 views, followed by Spanish (2,348), and Russian (1,851). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (209.76%), Cornish (178.54%), and Danish (152.43%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Middleton ranks 4,648 out of 7,302. Before him are Virginie Ancelot, Levon Shant, Ole Lund Kirkegaard, Sarah Kane, Grace Aguilar, and Margarita Aliger. After him are Mieke Bal, Hans Jæger, Miljenko Jergović, Koji Suzuki, Nicholas Meyer, and Constantin Negruzzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Thomas Middleton ranks 23. Before him are Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, António de Andrade, Matei Basarab, Carlo Contarini, and Julius Schiller. After him are Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania, Johann Faulhaber, Dirk Hartog, and Massasoit. Among people deceased in 1627, Thomas Middleton ranks 20. Before him are Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, Christina of Salm, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Jan Gruter, Guðbrandur Þorláksson, and Julius Schiller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Middleton ranks 3,334 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1374), Neil Aspinall (1941), Sarah Kane (1971), Peter Gethin (1940), Grace Aguilar (1816), and May Whitty (1865). After him are Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer (1897), Peter Bonetti (1941), William Lawes (1602), Henry Scott Tuke (1858), Richard de Bury (1287), and Michael Wilding (1912).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Middleton ranks 376. Before him are Lydia Becker (1827), Gilbert Adair (1944), Ronald Knox (1888), W. S. Gilbert (1836), Sarah Kane (1971), and Grace Aguilar (1816). After him are Taylor Caldwell (1900), Stephen Baxter (1957), Peter Ackroyd (1949), Gillian Rubinstein (1942), Edward Thomas (1878), and John Mawe (1764).

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