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A review by beforeviolets
The Witch by Thomas Middleton
Middleton writes such brilliantly convoluted and disjointed bizarre plays. They sometimes don't really work for me and sometimes really do.
Whereas Shakespeare (sorry to compare, but he's of course the touchstone for early modern drama) ties his many plots together, Middleton pieces together plots that are seemingly incongruent. But somehow, sometimes, it works. This one really interestingly turns some trends on its head, and I think is the play that is most accurately titled a tragicomedy that I've read. Maybe because the genres occur in that order, whereas they often start with comedy and end with tragedy.
I definitely would love to see a production of this, it was a blast, with the proper amount of emotional stakes that a tragedy delivers and the absurdity and deus ex machinas that a comedy delivers.
Whereas Shakespeare (sorry to compare, but he's of course the touchstone for early modern drama) ties his many plots together, Middleton pieces together plots that are seemingly incongruent. But somehow, sometimes, it works. This one really interestingly turns some trends on its head, and I think is the play that is most accurately titled a tragicomedy that I've read. Maybe because the genres occur in that order, whereas they often start with comedy and end with tragedy.
I definitely would love to see a production of this, it was a blast, with the proper amount of emotional stakes that a tragedy delivers and the absurdity and deus ex machinas that a comedy delivers.