Thomas Middleton was an English playwright in the 16th century.
There was some evidence that William Shakespeare's play Macbeth contained "interpolations" drawn from Middleton's work. (PROSE: The True Tragedie of Macbeth) In what appeared to be Shakespeare's working notes for The Tempest, he made a note to remind himself to check if Middleton was not already doing a shipwreck story. However, these jottings were part of the Shakespeare Notebooks and in the extract most-commonly cited as anachronistic proof of their inauthenticity. (PROSE: The Tempest – A Work in Progress)