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Thomas Middleton’s Theatre of War: The King’s Men and Political Performance in the Public Sphere, 1620-1624 This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King’s Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politics in early modern English drama. Situating these works against the backdrop of the Thirty Years’ War, the Spanish Match, and growing domestic anxiety over foreign policy and confessional identity, the study demonstrates how Middleton used the commercial stage to exploit public political knowledg https://www.routledge.com/Thomas-Middletons-Theatre-of-War-The-Kings-Men-and-Political-Perform/Green/p/book/9781032866970?_ga=undefined