Players | Were never more uncertain in their lives

DMI number:

17170

Poem Aliases

Middleton. Mad World My Masters. Act 5.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Players | Were never more uncertain in their lives

Last Line:

Where to play for puritan fools nor what | To play for critical fools

Poem Genre / Form:

Blank verse, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Verse-drama

Themes:

Theatre[The Fool]

Related People

Author:

Thomas Middleton

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

LION. From A Mad World, My Masters, Act V.

Content/Publication

Title:

[vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]

Page No(s):

p.23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mad World my Masters

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton