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Item Details
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THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
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| By: |
Brian Gibbons (Editor), John Webster |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£6.99 |
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£6.12 |
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£0.87 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1408116634 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408116630 |
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| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2014 |
| Series: |
New Mermaids |
| Description: |
Universally considered Webster's masterpiece, this violent playpresents a dark and disturbing portrait of the human condition. Theplay's heroine is imprisoned by her brothers because she bore acommoner's son. |
| Synopsis: |
One of the most haunting tragedies written in the Jacobean period, TheDuchess of Malfi (1614) adapts the true story of a noble Italian widowwho secretly marries her steward and has children with him. Her twobrothers, enraged by this act of female self-determination, begin tospy on the happy family, entrap them and subject their sister tofiendish psychological torture before they have her strangled. Unlikehis sources, Webster does not condemn the Duchess for lasciviousness,nor does he allow her brothers to live. As the introduction to thisedition shows, the play is replete with reverberations of earliertragedies, most prominently Hamlet and Othello, and has few equals as askilful and stirring rendition of Jacobean dramatic fashions. |
| Illustrations: |
c 5 photographs/line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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