The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster - Boeken - Bibliotech Press - 9781647994181 - 16 maart 2020
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The Duchess of Malfi

John Webster

The Duchess of Malfi

John Webster, (born c. 1580, London, Eng.--died c. 1632), English dramatist whose The White Devil (c. 1609-c. 1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1612/13, published 1623) are generally regarded as the paramount 17th-century English tragedies apart from those of Shakespeare.

Little is known of Webster's life. His preface to Monuments of Honor, his Lord Mayor's Show for 1624, says he was born a freeman of the Merchant Taylors' Company. He was probably a coachmaker, and possibly he was an actor. Apart from his two major plays and The Devils Law-Case (c. 1620; published 1623), his dramatic work consists of collaborations (not all extant) with leading writers. With Thomas Dekker, his main collaborator, he wrote Westward Ho (1604) and Northward Ho (1605), both of which were published in 1607. He is also believed to have worked to varying degrees with William Rowley, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, John Ford, and perhaps Philip Massinger. 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).

The White Devil, like Macbeth, is a tragedy of action; and The Duchess of Malfi, like King Lear, is a tragedy of suffering. (britannica.com)

Media Boeken     Paperback Book   (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven 16 maart 2020
ISBN13 9781647994181
Uitgevers Bibliotech Press
Pagina's 132
Afmetingen 152 × 229 × 8 mm   ·   167 g
Taal en grammatica Engels  

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