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''Anything for a Quiet Life'' is a Jacobean stage play, a city comedy written by Thomas Middleton and John Webster. Topical allusions suggest the play was written most likely in 1621. ==Authorship== The play was first published in quarto in 1662 by the bookseller Francis Kirkman, with a title-page attribution of authorship to Middleton.〔The 1662 quarto crams the full-length play into only 52 pages, by printing all the verse as prose—a tactic Kirkman employs in other plays he printed, like ''The Birth of Merlin'', also from 1662.〕 Yet while Middleton's distinctive style is clearly present in some portions of the text, there are other sections that suggested to some critics the presence of a second hand. The early twentieth-century critic H. Dugdale Sykes was the first person to argue in favour of Webster as the second author.〔Sykes, pp. 159–72.〕 Sykes' hypothesis won acceptance from a range of other scholars.〔Lake, pp. 175–6.〕 David Lake, in his study of authorship questions in Middleton's canon, confirms the presence of Webster's hand, and gives the following breakdown for the respective shares of the two writers.〔Lake, pp. 177–84.〕 : Webster – Act I; Act II, scene i; Act IV, scene i; : Middleton – Act II, scenes ii and iii; Act III; Act IV, scene iii; : Both – Act IV, scene ii; Act V, scene i. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anything for a Quiet Life」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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