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The Duchess of Malfi de John Webster

The Duchess of Malfi

Autor John Webster
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iun 2020

The Duchess of Malfi

A Macabre, Tragic Play

by

John Webster

The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy) is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612-13. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14.

Published in 1623, the play is loosely based on events that occurred between about 1508 and 1513. The Duchess was Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi (d. 1511), whose father, Enrico d'Aragona, Marquis of Gerace, was an illegitimate son of Ferdinand I of Naples. As in the play, she secretly married Antonio Beccadelli di Bologna after the death of her first husband Alfonso I Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi.

The play begins as a love story, with a Duchess who marries beneath her class, and ends as a nightmarish tragedy as her two brothers exact their revenge, destroying themselves in the process. Jacobean drama continued the trend of stage violence and horror set by Elizabethan tragedy, under the influence of Seneca. The complexity of some of its characters, particularly Bosola and the Duchess, plus Webster's poetic language, ensure the play is often considered among the greatest tragedies of English renaissance drama.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789354031625
ISBN-10: 9354031625
Pagini: 172
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Alpha Editions

Caracteristici

Provides a comprehensive consideration of the historical, literary, theatrical, and critical contexts of the play, as well as giving students clear indications of how the play might address concerns that are still relevant to them today

Notă biografică

Karen Britland is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her research interests include early modern drama, the Stuart court, and women's writing. She has edited plays by Elizabeth Cary, John Marston, and James Shirley, and was an associate editor for the Cambridge Complete Works of Ben Jonson edition between 2000 and 2012.

Cuprins

IntroductionPreface Plot Summary Analysis1. Historical and Literary Contexts2. Performance Aspects of the Text 3. Critical InterpretationsResources and Annotated Bibliography A Note on the Text The Play

Recenzii

'I found it more exciting than I should probably admit to at seeing the Shakespeare-rich layer of annotation underpinning the text on the page of a play - The Duchess of Malfi - that simply hasn't been treated in that way before, especially in terms of introductory matter.'
'Fascinating reading'
'Webster took tragedy to a new level in the psychology of evil, actual horror and callousness.'
'Webster's language has a musical poetry second only to Shakespeare's'

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The Duchess of Malfi is amacabre, tragic play which is often performed and studied at A leveland university. This Arden edition brings all the scholarship andcomprehensive analysis associated with the series and offers readers adeeper understanding of the play than competing editions.