About this title: 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 ...
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780192834539ISBN:0192834533
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780192834539ISBN:0192834533
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780192834539ISBN:0192834533
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1998-10-22
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 10/22/1998
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"My favorite female character of Jacobean Revenge Tragedy! She is a stoic, beautiful woman who actually existed in history. I think John Webster's drama is incredibly feminist despite the era in which he was writing. I would love to see this performed."
"Not one of my favorites. Though, I do have to say any play with incest and lycanthrope from the 1600s does make for an entertaining, if not disturbing, read."
"Webster, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was an expert writer on the darker side of human nature, and his plays are often harrowing and disconcerting. ("The Duchess of Malfi" is his masterpiece; beginning as a love story, it ends as a horrible tragedy of revenge and destruction.) Interestingly, and strangely, enough, he was an adept comedic writer as well."
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