Updating this Jacobean play to the 1890s diminishes some of its impact, but it's a rousing production, writes Michael Billington

Joe Hill-Gibbins: The Changeling, a 17th-century play by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, gets a very modern twist in our new film, made in collaboration with the Guardian and the Young Vic

This revival of Joe Hill-Gibbins's production maintains its energy but has become coarser, writes Michael Billington

Is this Shakespeare's lost play? It's almost too full of verbal echoes to be by the man himself and has a Middletonian macabre climax, writes Michael Billington

Thomas Middleton challenged Shakespeare on his own turf. It is impossible to watch The Revenger's Tragedy without thinking of Hamlet, argues Gary Taylor

He collaborated with Shakespeare and adapted his plays after his death, but Thomas Middleton was always overshadowed by the Bard. A new collected works is set to change all that, writes Gary Taylor

Thomas Middleton's malevolent farce is a guilty pleasure for Alfred Hickling.

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