The Duchess of Malfi

Author: John Webster
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719043574
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.

The Duchess of Malfi

Author: John Webster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408138131
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in the classroom. The story of the Duchess's secret marriage and the cruel revenge of her brothers has fascinated and appalled audiences for centuries. This new Arden edition offers readers a comprehensive, illustrated introduction to the play's historical, critical and performance history. The text is modernised and edited to the highest scholarly standards, with textual notes and commentary notes on the same page for ease of reference. This is the lead title in the launch of The Arden Early Modern Drama Series, a series which offers all the depth and quality of thinking long associated with the Arden. The edition will be valued by students, teachers and theatre professionals.

The Duchess of Malfi

Author: John Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
John Webster's play "The Duchess of Malfi" is a violent play that presents a dark, disturbing portrait of the human condition... The title character is a widow with two brothers: Ferdinand and the Cardinal. In the play's opening act, the brothers try to persuade their sister not to seek a new husband. Her resistance to their wishes sets in motion a chain of secrecy, plotting, and violence. The relationship between Ferdinand and the Duchess is probably one of the most unsettling brother-sister relationships in literature. The play is full of both onstage killings and great lines. The title character is one of stage history's intriguing female characters; she is a woman whose desires lead her to defy familial pressure. Another fascinating and complex character is Bosola, who early in the play is enlisted to act as a spy. Overall, a compelling and well-written tragedy. --Michael J. Mazza at Amazon.com.

The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi

Author: John Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

The Duchess of Malfi

Author: John Webster
Publisher: Norton
ISBN: 9780393923254
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The great English Renaissance tragedy--violent, powerful, unforgettable--in a freshly edited and annotated student edition.

The White Devil

Author: John Webster
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192834539
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 438

Book Description
This volume offers John Webster's two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil's Law-Case, and the comedy written with William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold. Webster is a radically and creatively experimental dramatist. His tragedies deploy shifting dramatic perspectives which counteract and challenge conventional moral judgements, while the predominantly gentler tone of his comedies and tragicomedies responds inventively to contemporary changes in dramatic taste and fashion. All four plays display the provocative intelligence of a profoundly original playwright. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is detailed annotation, a glossary, and a critical introduction which traces Webster's artistic development, defends him against charges of overindulgence in violence, and explores his sophisticated staging and scenic forms.

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy

Author: Emma Josephine Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521519373
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.

The Duchess of Malfi

Author: John Webster
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
"The Duchess of Malfi" by John Webster. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Mystery of the Duchess of Malfi

Author: Barbara Banks Amendola
Publisher: Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780750928403
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
This book traces her tragic life, the controversy of her secret marriage to her servant lover, and the wrath of her wicked Cardinal brother, amid the culture of fifteenth century Italy.

The Duchess of Malfi

Author: John Webster
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 9780582817791
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
The best-known of the Jacobean tragedies; an exemplary model of the tragedy of blood.