This edition provides: A clear and authoritative text Detailed on-page commentary notes A comprehensive, illustrated introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts A bibliography of references and further reading ...
To defend the fourth child, a pilgrim keeps watch, when, during the night, an old woman ap- proaches the cradle and tries to strangle the child. The pilgrim seizes the woman and burns her face with a poker. The local people iden- tify ...
Thus to discover precise sources for Webster's drama is impossible, and perhaps undesirable, since its uniqueness lies ... Historie del Mondo, 1596, and the early sixteenth-century Italian pamphlet Il miserabil e com- passionevol caso).
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.
It is also a notoriously challenging work; this volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to the play, surveying its major themes and critical reception.
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The White Devil focuses on the love story between the Duke of Brachiano and Vittoria Corombona, two of the many unscrupulous characters in the work.
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Supplemented by a plot summary, annotated bibliography, production images, and essential contextual grounding in the court scandals that inspired Webster's tragedy and Webster's unusual composition practices, this edition is the most ...
In publishing this tragedy, I do but challenge myself that liberty, which other men have taken before me; not that I affect praise by it, for, nos hæc novimus esse nihil, only since it was acted in so dull a time of winter, presented in so ...
THE WHITE DEVIL tells the story of an aspiring American actress, who, together with her too charming brother, is implicated in a series of crimes dating back to their childhood days in Texas.
This revised student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the author, date and sources, theme, critical interpretation and stage history.
Webster's other masterpiece of Jacobean tragedy.
Eight extant plays and some nondramatic verse and prose are wholly or partly his; the most standard edition is The Complete Works of John Webster, ed. by F.L. Lucas, 4 vol. (1927).