A study of one of the most prominent and versatile writers of the early seventeenth century. Middleton collaborated with several contemporaries including, Dekker, Shakespeare and Rowley and a chapter is devoted to each of these. Dekker and Middleton's 'The Roaring Girl' is examined in detail as is his intertextual relations with Shakespeare and, arguably his masterpiece 'The Changeling' written with Rowley. This is the first study of Middleton to emphasize his collaborative relationships and the intertextual elements of the plays, pageants, poems, and pamphlets.CONTENTSChronologyPreface and AcknowledgementsA Question of AttributionAbbreviations and ReferencesIntroduction1. Middleton2. Collaboration3. Middleton and Dekker4. Middleton and Shakespeare5. Middleton and Rowley6. Intertextual MiddletonAfterwordNotesSelect BibliographyIndexAUTHORS: Mark Hutchings is Lecturer in English, University of Reading.A. A. Bromham was formerly Head of English, West London Institute of Higher Education, Brunel University.