Michaelmas Term

A staged reading of Michaelmas Term by Thomas Middleton (c 1604).

In the midst of the frenzied activity of the Jacobean law courts, the villainous draper Ephestian Quomodo plots to cheat a young gentleman, Richard Easy, of his lands; meanwhile, two suitors are rivals for Quomodo's daughter, and his wife has ideas of her own.

In Michaelmas Term, Middleton and the Children of Paul's gleefully dramatise an acquisitive, dystopian environment in which children forget parents, parents fail to recognise children, and some no longer even know themselves.