A Trick To Catch the Old One
Note:
Date of first performance from Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 208.
Date of composition:
- 1605 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 205)
- 1604 -1606 (Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 205)
Date of first performance: 1605 - 1606 approx.
Genre (Annals): Comedy
Catalogue references: Wiggins: 1467 (Vol. 5)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1973 modern edition by Robert G. Lawrence.
- 1608 quarto Eld, George Printed title: A Trick to catch the Old-one single-play print
- 1616 quarto Eld, George Langley, Thomas Printed title: A TRICKE TO CATCH THE OLD ONE. single-play print
Early Performances
- Company: Children of Paul’s Venue: Date: 1605
Cast:
Note: “c. 1605-6” (Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 208). Indoor “private” theatre
Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 5: 1603-1608. 2015. - Company: Children of the Queen's Revels Venue: Date: 1606
Cast:
Note: "c. 1606-8" (Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 208). Indoor “private” theatre
Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 5: 1603-1608. 2015. - Company: Children of the Queen's Revels Venue: Whitehall Palace Date: 1607
Cast:
Note: 1 January. Company inferred.
Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 5: 1603-1608. 2015.
Modern Productions
- Instant Classics. White Bear Pub, London, 1994.
- National Theatre Studio. Dir. Jenny Eastop, 1997
- American Shakespeare Center (ASC). Blackfriars Playhouse, 2011.
- Wallace, James, dir. [Staged reading] Shakespeare’s Globe, London. 2008. ‘Read Not Dead’ series.
- Eastop, Jenny, dir. Rose Theatre, 2014.
Modern editions
- Mulholland, Paul, ed. A Trick to Catch the Old One. Middleton, Thomas. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. The Revels Plays.
- Wayne, Valerie, ed. A Trick to Catch the Old One. In: Taylor, Gary; Lavagnino, John, ed. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 373–413
- Taylor, Michael, ed. A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays. Middleton, Thomas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Oxford English Drama.
- Loughrey, Bryan ; Taylor, Neil, ed. Five Plays. Middleton, Thomas. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1988.
- Frost, David L., ed. The Selected Plays of Thomas Middleton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
- Price, George R., ed. Michaelmas Term; A Trick to Catch the Old One. Middleton, Thomas. The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1976. Studies in English Literature 91.
- Lawrence, Robert G., ed. Jacobean and Caroline Comedies. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1973. Everyman’s Library.
- Nethercot, Arthur H.;. Baskervill, , Charles R. ; Heltzel, Virgil B., ed. Stuart Plays. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
- Barber, Charles, ed. A Trick to Catch the Old One. Middleton, Thomas. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1968. Fountainwell Drama Texts.
- Watson, G. J., ed. A Trick to Catch the Old One. Middleton, Thomas. London: E. Benn, 1968. New Mermaids.
- Spencer, Hazelton, ed. Elizabethan Plays. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1933.
- Bullen, A. H., ed. The Works of Thomas Middleton. Vol. 2. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885.
Select Bibliography: Translations
- ES:
- Middleton, Thomas. "Truco para cazar a un viejo". Tra. Sanderson, John D.. Biblioteca Digital EMOTHE. Valencia: ARTELOPE / EMOTHE Universitat de València, 2017. URL: https://emothe.uv.es/biblioteca/textosEMOTHE/EMOTHE0483_TrucoParaCazarAUnViejo.php
- FR:
- Middleton, Thomas. "Moyen d'attraper un vieillard". Tra. Duval, Georges. Tra. Duval, Georges. Les Contemporains de Shakespeare. Ben Jonson, Marlowe, Dekker, Middleton. Paris: E. Flammarion, 1920. URL: https://emothe.uv.es/biblioteca/textosEMOTHE/EMOTHE0446_LeMoyenDattraperUnVieillard.php
- IT:
- Middleton, Thomas. Una trappola per il vecchio. Tra. Landini, M. C.. Bologna: CUSL, 1989.
- Middleton, Thomas. "Una trappola per il vecchio". Tra. Barbarossa, Chiara. Tre drammi di Thomas Middleton. Genova: Tilgher, 1977.
Select Bibliography: Criticism
- Leonidas, Eric. "The School of the World: Trading on Wit in Middleton's 'Trick to Catch the Old One'". Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature. 2007, vol. 3, 12, .
- Biggs, Murray. "The questionable ending of Middleton's 'A Trick to Catch the Old One': how seriously can we take the palinodes?". Notes and Queries. 1994, vol. 4, 41, p. 507-9.
- Mount, David B. "The '[un]reclaymed forme' of Middleton's 'A Trick to Catch the Old One'". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 1991, vol. 2, 31, p. 259-72.
- Shershow, Scott Cutler. "The pit of wit: sub-plot and unity in Middleton's 'A Trick to Catch the Old One'". Studies in Philology. 1991, vol. 3, 88, p. 363-81.
- Ayers, P. K. "Plot, Subplot, and the Uses of Dramatic Discord in 'A Mad World, My Masters' and 'A Trick To Catch the Old One". Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History. 1986, vol. 1, 47, p. 3-18.
- Messina, Joseph. "The Moral Design of 'A Trick to Catch the Old One'". Ed. Friedenreich, Kenneth. "Accompaninge the players": Essays Celebrating Thomas Middleton, 1580-1980. New York: AMS, 1983, p. 109-132.
- Kadono, Izumi. "The Prodigal in 'A Trick To Catch the Old One'". Sophia English Studies. 1982, 7, p. 33-46.
<< Back