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<p>He collaborated with Shakespeare and adapted his plays after his death, but Thomas Middleton was always overshadowed by the Bard. A new collected works is set to change all that, writes Gary Taylor</p>

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Gary Taylor on the resurgence of Thomas Middleton

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