Forbidden to remarry by her two brothers, the Duchess of Malfi finds herself attracted to her steward, Antonio. They go through a form of marriage and the Duchess bears three children. When her brothers uncover the truth, the fate of the Duchess and her family is sealed.

The Duchess of Malfi

Literature & Fiction

JOHN WEBSTER

Dramas & Plays

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

The Duchess Of Malfi

John Russell Brown

Fred B. Millett

Collins

Hot Dog (Headwork Reading: Level 4A)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Oxford University Press

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Science & Math

Physics

Forgotten Books

An acute reader of contemporary drama and a consummate parodist,Webster achieves in his plays a density of allusion that often producesmoments of brilliant psychological insight and theatrical ingenuity.Working with the established conventions of revenge tragedy, themalcontent youngster and dark sexual intrigue, he created in The WhiteDevil (1612) an exciting, if dramatically flawed, version of a recentItalian scandal involving the Montalto, Orsini and de' Medici families.The introduction to this edition disentangles the various plotlines,illuminates Webster's interest in women as an exploited group withinnate heroic potential and shows how he dissects the misogynistrhetoric of his male characters.

The White Devil

W.W.Norton

The evils of greed and ambition overwhelm love, innocence, and the bonds of kinship in this dark tragedy, first presented circa 1613. John Webster's great Jacobean drama focuses on a secret marriage that strikes the disastrous spark to an inferno of violence. When the Duchess of Malfi marries Antonio, a household steward, her two fiendishly jealous brothers ― hoping to inherit her title and estates ― plant a household spy whose treachery leads to a bloody and horrifying climax. Often compared to Shakespeare in terms of his dynamic plots and poetic lyricism, Webster created radical, profoundly original works that feature shifting perspectives and thought-provoking challenges to conventional moral judgments. Required reading for courses in seventeenth-century English literature, this provocative masterpiece from the Golden Age of English drama will not only be welcomed by students and teachers of English literature but also a wide audience of general readers.

The Duchess of Malfi (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)

Humor & Entertainment

Dover Publications

This is the third and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster. It contains the final complete play in the edition, the City comedy Anything for a Quiet Life, as well as Webster's spectacular Lord Mayor's pageant Monuments of Honour and his Induction and additions to John Marston's The Malcontent. Webster's non-dramatic work is also included: the deeply felt verse elegy to Prince Henry entitled A Monumental Column, his various shorter poems, including verses for the engraving of The Progeny of ... Prince James, and the thirty-two New Characters added to the sixth edition of Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters. This Cambridge critical edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays, poetry and prose, and incorporates the most recent editorial scholarship, including valuable information on Webster's share in the collaborative plays, and new critical methods and textual theory.

Works of John Webster, Volume III (Volume 3)

Cambridge Univ. Press

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

The Duchess of Malfi (New Mermaids)

A C Black Publishers Ltd

The White Devil (New Mermaids)

Methuen Drama

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an improved, accessible and throughly up-to-date edition. Starting with the authoritative Revels Plays edition of 1964, John Russell Brown has augmented the notes and collations, and casts new light on Webster's dramatic dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction encompasses a stage history from its well-documented early performances right through to recent productions in the twenty first century. The bibliography has also been expanded. Students, actors, directors, academics and theatre-goers will find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre.

The Duchess of Malfi (Revels Plays)

Manchester University Press

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