O trabalho de Middleton tem sido elogiado por críticos literários, entre eles Algernon Charles Swinburne e T. S. Eliot.. Este último achava que Middleton perdia apenas para Shakespeare.[2]
As peças de Middleton foram encenadas ao longo do século XX e no século XXI, cada década oferecendo mais produções do que a anterior. Mesmo algumas obras menos familiares dele foram encenadas: A Fair Quarrel no National Theatre e The Old Law pela Royal Shakespeare Company. The Changeling foi adaptado para o cinema várias vezes. A tragédia Women Beware Women continua sendo uma das favoritas dos palcos. The Revenger's Tragedy foi adaptado para o filme de Alex Cox, Revengers Tragedy, cujos créditos iniciais atribuem a autoria da peça a Middleton.
Peças
The Phoenix (1603–1604)
The Honest Whore, Part 1, a city comedy (1604), Co-escrito com Thomas Dekker
The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James Through the City of London (1603–4). Co-escrito com Dekker, Stephen Harrison e Ben Jonson
The Manner of his Lordship's Entertainment
Civitas Amor
The Triumphs of Truth (1613)
The Triumphs of Honour and Industry (1617)
The Masque of Heroes, or, The Inner Temple Masque (1619)
The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity (1619)
The World Tossed at Tennis (1620). Co-escrito com William Rowley.
Honourable Entertainments (1620–1)
An Invention (1622)
The Sun in Aries (1621)
The Triumphs of Honour and Virtue (1622)
The Triumphs of Integrity with The Triumphs of the Golden Fleece (1623)
"Thomas Middleton", The Times Literary Supplement, 30 June 1927, pp. 445–446 (unsigned).
Anthony Covatta, "Thomas Middleton's City Comedies." Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press, 1973
Barbara Jo Baines, The Lust Motif in the Plays of Thomas Middleton. Salzburg, 1973
Eccles, Mark (1933). «Middleton's Birth and Education». Review of English Studies. 7: 431–41
Pier Paolo Frassinelli, "Realism, Desire, and Reification: Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside." Early Modern Literary Studies 8 (2003)
Kenneth Friedenreich, ed., "Accompaninge the players": Essays Celebrating Thomas Middleton, 1580–1980ISBN0-404-62278-X
Margot Heinemann. Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama Under the Early Stuarts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980
Herbert Jack Heller. Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Press, 2000
Ceri Sullivan, 'Thomas Middleton's View of Public Utility', Review of English Studies 58 (2007), pp.160–74
Ceri Sullivan, The Rhetoric of Credit. Merchants in Early Modern Writing. Madison/Londres: Associated University Press, 2002
Gary Taylor. "Thomas Middleton." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
Stanley Wells. Select Bibliographical Guides: English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume VI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907–1921. Bartleby e-text
