Moderate Middleton: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Caroline Religion.

This essay situates Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside within the religiopolitical environment of its print publication in Caroline England, seventeen years after the play's initial performance in 1613. I argue that its publisher, Francis Constable, exploited the Puritan acclaim the playw...

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Published in:	English Literary Renaissance Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 129 - 154
Main Author:	Kuhn, Justin
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of Chicago Press Spring2026
Subjects:	Moderation Middleton, Thomas, 1580-1627 Puritans Radicalism Church history Early modern English drama Attitudes toward religion Dramatists
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