Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

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Middleton's plays were staged throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first each decade offering more productions than the last. Middleton attended Queen’s College Oxford matriculating in 1598 although he did not graduate. Hengist King of Kent or The Mayor of Quinborough a tragedy (1620)
Women Beware Women a tragedy (1621)
Measure for Measure.

He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in comedy and tragedy. Thomas Middleton (1580 – July 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet.