The Changeling by Middleton and Rowley - is there a video/movie/dvd to
hire or buy and where from?

Unfortunately, I was unable to find this play available for purchase
on either DVD or VHS. I looked on ebay, amazon, and us.imdb.com .

Here are the results of what I did find.

Thomas Middleton (1570-1627) and William Rowley (1585?-ca 1637)
collaborated on various plays [Cambridge History of English and
American Literature http://www.bartleby.com/216/0301.html ] including
The Changeling in 1622. The plot synopsis is roughly:

"Alsemero is a young man from 17th century Valencia who's in love with
Beatrice, daughter of the most powerful man in Alicante.
Unfortunately, she is locked into marriage with Alonso. She has made
the mistake of asking her father's servant De Flores, who is also in
love with her, to murder Alonso. After killing him, De Flores demands
payment from Beatrice by deflowering her. On her wedding night,
Beatrice bribes her maid, who is still a virgin, to take her place in
bed with Alsemero. This, of course, leads to further complications."

[From http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/181971 ]


Script at: http://www.angelfire.com/movies/closedcaptioned/change.txt

There seem to have been 3 adaptations for the screen of this play
according to http://us.imdb.com :

A 1974 Play of the Month for TV in the UK,
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0071302

A 1994 TV adaptation directed by Simnon Curtis,
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0109397

A 1998 film entitled "Middleton's Changeling" directed by Marcus
Thompson (only credit) http://us.imdb.com/Title?0158779 .

Text of play: http://www.tech.org/~cleary/change.html

At the 'United Independent Pictures Ltd' website there is a link to
purchase the 1994 version of 'The Changeling' however the price is
TBA: http://www.uipl.co.uk/vid/buyvid.htm
You may want to email them (contacts on website) to see if they have
it for sale.
Ali