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The Changeling

play by Middleton and Rowley

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English literature

In English literature: Other Jacobean dramatists
1621) and The Changeling (1622), in which the moral complacency of men of rank is shattered by the dreadful violence they themselves have casually set in train, proving the answerability of all men for their actions despite the exemptions claimed for privilege and status. The hand of…
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In tragedy: Decline in 17th-century England
…unwitting lady accomplice in Middleton’s Changeling (1622), and a prisoner of her deed she remains. Many of the plays maintained a pose of ironic, detached reportage, without the sense of sympathetic involvement that the greatest tragedians have conveyed from the beginning.
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