Timon of Athens
Timon of Athens From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search play by Shakespeare This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see Timon of Athens (disambiguation) . The Fugitive, Study for Timon of Athens , Thomas Couture (c. 1857) Timon of Athens ( The Life of Tymon of Athens ) is a play written by William Shakespeare and probably also Thomas Middleton in about 1606. It was published in the First Folio in 1623. Timon lavishes his wealth on parasitic companions until he is poor and rejected by them. He rejects mankind and goes to live in a cave. The earliest-known production of the play was in 1674, when Thomas Shadwell wrote an adaptation under the title The History of Timon of Athens, The Man-hater . [1] Multiple other adaptations followed over the next century, by writers such as Thomas Hull , James Love and Richard Cumberland . [2] The s...