Culture: Is this the future of historical drama?; Mike Davies talks tragedy with cult director Alex Cox.(Features)

The Birmingham Post (England) | February 28, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: Mike Davies

Originally attributed to Cyril Tourneur but now generally accepted as the work of Thomas Middleton, a collaborator of Shakespeare's who had also worked on Macbeth and Measure For Measure, The Revenger's Tragedy was first published anonymously in 1607.

Almost 370 years later, law student Alex Cox was sitting in his college library trying to revise but finding his attention distracted by shelves full of old leather-bound tomes. Browsing through one volume he chanced upon the play and was immediately struck by the darkly-funny meditation on ...

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