and Dekker's comedy The Honest Whore . Middleton's tragedies can be as lurid, brutal and demystifying as Caravaggio's Judith and Holofernes . Caravaggio's torn, furrowed-browed Doubting Thomas , caught red-handed in that electric moment when scepticism thrusts its finger into faith, could be doubting Thomas Middleton's Timon ("I must ever doubt, though