Éditions de la pièce
The Excellent Comedy, called The Old Law : A new way to please you. By Phil. Massinger, Tho. Middleton, William Rowley, London : Edward Archer, 1656.
The Works of Philip Massinger, ed. Thomas Coexter. Londres, 1759, vol. IV.
The Dramatic Works of Philip Massinger, ed. John Monck Mason. Londres, 1779, vol. IV.
The Plays of Philip Massinger, ed. William Gifford. Londres, 1805, vol. IV.
The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford, avec introduction de Hartley Coleridge. Londres, 1840.
The Works of Thomas Middleton, ed. Alexander Dyce. Londres, 1840, vol. I.
The Works of Thomas Middleton, ed. A. H. Bullen. Londres, 1885, vol. II. MIDDLETON, Thomas and William ROWLEY. The Old Law, or A New Way to Please You, ed. Catherine M. Shaw. Garland English Texts 4. New York : Garland, 1982.
MASSINGER Philip , Thomas MIDDLETON, and William ROWLEY, The Old Law. An edition of the 1656 text, with critical introduction, commentary, textual introduction, and textual notes, ed. Jeffrey Masten, dans The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton , general editor Gary Taylor. A paraître, Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Ouvrages critiques
ARTAUD, Antonin, « Le Théâtre et son double ». Œuvres, éd. Evelyne Grossman, Paris : Gallimard, 2004 (première parution : Paris, Gallimard, 1938).
ASP, Carolyn, A Study of Thomas Middleton’s Tragicomedies, Jacobean Drama Studies 28, Salzbourg : Universität Salzburg, 1974.
BAINES, B. J., The Lust Motif in the Plays of Thomas Middleton, Jacobean Drama Studies 29, Salzbourg : Universität Salzburg, 1973.
BAKHTINE, Mikhaïl. L’Œuvre de François Rabelais et la culture populaire au Moyen Âge et sous la Renaissance, Paris : Gallimard, 1965.
BALD, R. C. « The Chronology of Middleton’s Plays », MLR XXXII (1937), 33- 43.
BARKER, Richard H., Thomas Middleton, New York : Columbia University Press, 1958.
BEVINGTON, David. Tudor Drama and Politics, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
BREHIER, Émile et SCHUHL Pierre-Maxime, dir., « Cléanthe », in Les Stoïciens, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris : Gallimard, 1994.
BRISTOL, Michael D., Carnival and Theater. Plebeian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England, New York : Routledge, 1985.
BRITTIN, Norman A., Thomas Middleton, New York : Twayne, 1972.
BROMHAM, A. A., « The Contemporary Significance of The Old Law », Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 24 (Spring 1984) : 327-339.
---, & Z. BRUZZI, The Changeling and the Years of Crisis,1619-1624 : A Hieroglyph of Britain, Londres, Pinter, 1990.
---, « ‘Is the law firm ?’ Rewriting Middleton and Rowley’s The Old Law for the 1990s », European Studies 17 (2001) : 117-127.
CALLENS, Johan, From Middleton and Rowley's Changeling to Sam Shephard's Bodyguard : A Contemporary Appropriation of a Renaissance Drama, Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellin Press, 1997.
CHAKRAVORTY, Swapan, Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton, Oxford : Clarendon, 1996.
CHERRY, Caroline Lockett, The Most Unvalued Purchase : Women in the Plays of Thomas Middleton, Salzburg : Universität Salzburg, 1973.
COGSWELL, Thomas, The Blessed Revolution, Cambridge : Cambridge UP, 1989. DIEFENDORF, Barbara B., « Family Culture, Renaissance Culture », Renaissance Quarterly 40.4 (Winter 1987) : 661-681.
DUNKEL, W. D., « Did Not Rowley Merely Revise Middleton ? », PMLA 48.3 (September 1933), 799-805.
---, The Dramatic Technique of Thomas Middleton in His Comedies of London Life, New York : Russell & Russell, 1967.
DUNLAP, Rhodes, « James I, Bacon, Middleton, and the Making of the Peace- Maker », Studies in the English Renaissance Drama, eds. J. W. Bennett, O. Cargill, and V. Hall, New York, NY : New York UP, 1959. 82-94.
ECCLES, Mark, « Middleton's Birth and Education », Review of English Studies 7 (1931) : 431-441.
ERTLE, Antoine. Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess/Une Partie d’échecs : édition bilingue établie par Antoine Ertlé, Edition électronique, Études Epistémè, 2004, <etudes-episteme.org >
FARR, Dorothy M., Thomas Middleton and the Drama of Realism : A Study of some Representative Plays. Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd, 1973.
FRIEDENREICH, Kenneth, éd., « ‘Accompaninge the players’ Essays celebrating Thomas Middleton,1580-1980 », New York : AMS Press, 1983.
GAIGNEBET, Claude et Marie-Claude FLORENTIN, Le Carnaval, Paris : Payot, 1979.
HEINEMANN, Margot, Puritanism and Theatre : Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Stuarts, Cambridge : Cambridge UP, 1980.
HELM, James L., « Thomas Middleton’s Cleanthes and Renaissance Gerontology », Cahiers Élisabéthains 39 (avril 1991) : 41-46.
HOLMES, David M., The Art of Thomas Middleton : A Critical Study, Oxford : Clarendon, 1970.
HUEBERT, Ronald, « Middleton's Nameless Art », The Sewanee Review 95 (1987) : 591-609.
HUTCHINGS, Mark et BROMHAM, A.A., Middleton and His Collaborators, Londres : Northcote House, 2007.
JACKSON, M. P., Studies in Attribution : Middleton and Shakespeare, Jacobean Drama Studies 79. Salzburg : Universität Salzburg, 1979.
JOHANSSON, Bertil, Religion and Superstition in the Plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton, Essays and Studies on English language and literature, 7, New York : Haskell House, 1966.
---, Law and Lawyers in Elizabethan England as Evidenced in the Plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton, Stockholm Studies in English, 18, Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1967.
KISTNER, Arthur L. et Madge K. KISTNER, Middleton's Tragic Themes, American University Studies IV ; English Language and Literature 10, New York, NY : P. Lang, 1984.
LAKE, David J., The Canon of Thomas Middleton's Plays : Internal Evidence for the Major Problems of Authorship, Londres : Cambridge University Press, 1975.
MASTEN, Jeffrey Masten, « Family Values : Euthanasia, Editing, and The Old Law », Textual Practice 9.3 (1995) : 445-458.
McELROY, John F., Parody and Burlesque in the Tragicomedies of Thomas Middleton, Salzburg Studies in English Literature 19, Salzbourg : Universität Salzburg, 1972.
MOONEY, Michael E., « ‘Framing’ as a Collaborative Technique : Two Middleton-Rowley Plays », in Davidson, Clifford (ed.), Gianakaris, C. J. (ed. & pref.), Stroupe, John H. (ed.), Drama in the Renaissance : comparative and Critical Essays, New York : AMS, 1986, 300-314.
MORRIS, Edgar C., « On the Date of Publication of The Old Law », PMLA XVII (1902), 1-70.
MUIR, Kenneth, « Characterization and its Implications for the Modern Stage », The Arts of Performance in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Drama : Essays for G. K. Hunter. Eds. Murray Biggs, Philip Edward, Inga Stina Ewbank, Eugene M. Waith, Bibliography by Shelagh Hunter, Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1991. 147-155.
MULRYNE, J. R., Thomas Middleton. Writers and their Work 268, Londres : Longman, 1972.
--- & Margaret SHEWRING, eds., Theatre and Government under the Early Stuarts, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
NAUER, Bruno, Thomas Middleton : A Study of the Narrative Structures, Zürich : Juris Druck und Verlag, 1977.
PARKER, R. B., « Middleton's Experiments with Comedy and Judgment », Stratford-upon-Avon Studies : Jacobean Theatre (1960).
PHIALAS, P. G., « Middleton's Early Contacts with the Law », Studies in Philology 52 (1955) : 186-194.
POWER, William, « Thomas Middleton vs. King James I », Notes and Queries 202 (1957) : 526-34.
PRICE, George R., « The Authorship and the Manuscript of The Old Law », ELQ, XVI (1953), 117-139.
RICKS, C., « The Tragedies of Webster, Tourneur, and Middleton : Symbols, Imagery, and Conventions », The Sphere History of Literature in the English Language, vol. 3 : English Drama to 1710. Ed. C. Ricks. 1971.
RICHARDS, Bernard, « Corrections and Additions to Recent Editions of Middleton and Rowley’s A Fair Quarrel », Notes and Queries 27 (1980), 154-155.
RIGAUD, Nadine, « Variations qualitatives de l’espace dans une tragi-comédie de Middleton, The Old Law ». Espaces et représentations dans le monde anglo- américain aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Paris : Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne, 1981.
ROBB, Dewar M., « The Canon of William Rowley’s Plays », MLR XLV (1950), 129-141.
ROWE, George E., Jr. « The Old Law and Middleton’s Comic Vision », English Literary History 42.3 (Summer 1975) : 189-202.
---, Thomas Middleton and the New Comedy Tradition, Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 1979.
SCHOENBAUM, Samuel, Middleton's Tragedies : A Critical Study, New York : Columbia UP, 1955.
---, « Middleton’s Tragicomedies », Modern Philology LIV (1956-1957), 7-19. STAGG, Louis Charles, An Index to the Figurative Language of Thomas Middleton's Tragedies, Charlottesville : Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1970.
STEEN, Sara Jayne, Ambrosia in an Earthern Vessel : Three Centuries of Audience and Reader Response to the Works of Thomas Middleton, Studies in Renaissance 31, New York, NY : AMS, 1992.
---, Thomas Middleton, a Reference Guide, Boston : G. K. Hall, 1984.
TAYLOR, Gary, « ‘The Old Law’ or ‘An Old Law’ ? », Notes and Queries 49 (247) 2 (June 2002), 256-258.
---, « Middleton and Rowley – and Heywood : The Old Law and New Attribution Technologies », Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 96-2 (June 2002), 165-217.
---, « Help the Aged », The Guardian 12 mars 2005.
WHITE, Martin, Middleton and Tourneur, English Dramatists, Londres : Macmillan, 1992.
WILLIAMS, Mark Robin Winfield, « Dramatic Technique in Thomas Middleton's Later Plays », DAI 53 (1993) : 3542A, University of Oxford.
YACHNIN, Paul Edward, Stage-Wrights : Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value, Philadelphia : University of Philadelphia Press, 1997.