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Middleton’s tragicomedies are farfetched in plot but strong in dramatic situations. A Fair Quarrel (1616?, with Rowley, published 1617) contains one of Middleton’s few heroes, Captain Ager, with his conflicts of conscience. Most of Middleton’s other plays are comedies. He collaborated with Dekker in The Honest Whore (1604), and with Rowley and Philip Massinger in The Old...
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