John Webster
Webster, John - 1580?–1634, English dramatist, b. London. Although little is known of his life, there is evidence that he worked for Philip Henslowe, collaborating with such playwrights as Dekker and Ford. Webster's literary reputation rests almost entirely on his two great tragedies, The White Devil (c.1608) and The Duchess of Malfi (c.1614). Violent and sensational, both plays treat the Read More...
Webster, John - 1580?–1634, English dramatist, b. London. Although little is known of his life, there is evidence that he worked for Philip Henslowe, collaborating with such playwrights as Dekker and Ford. Webster's literary reputation rests almost entirely on his two great tragedies, The White Devil (c.1608) and The Duchess of Malfi (c.1614). Violent and sensational, both plays treat the theme of revenge and generate a brooding, somber mood. Webster's highly poetic language and profound understanding of human suffering create a true tragic pathos and force. See his works (ed. by F. L. Lucas, 4 vol., 1927); studies by C. Leech (1951, repr. 1970), R. Berry (1972), R. F. Whitman (1973), L. Bliss (1983), and C. Forker (1986). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved. |
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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
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The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare ("The Duchess of Malfi" by John Webster begins on p. 656)
by William Allan Neilson. 880 pgs.
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Shakespeare's Contemporaries ("John Webster: Fate and Chance in The Duchess of Malfi" begins on p. 210 and "'Courtly Reward and Punishment:' An Interpretation of the White Devil" begins on p. 223)
by Max Bluestone, Norman Rabkin. 300 pgs.
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Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy (Chap. 10 "'Fame's Best Friend:' The Endings of the Duchess of Malfi")
by Michael Neill. 404 pgs.
Issues of Death offers a fresh approach to the tragic drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Starting from the premise that "death" is a historical construct that is differently experienced in every culture, it treats Renaissance tragedy as an instrument for reimagining the human encounter with death. Analyses of major plays by Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton, and Ford explore the relation of tragedy to the macabre tradition, to the apocalyptic displays of the anatomy theatre, and to the spectacular arts of funeral.
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Tamburlaine's Malady: And Other Essays on Astrology in Elizabethan Drama (Discussion of John Webster begins on p. 94)
by Johnstone Parr. 160 pgs.
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The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England (Chap. 10 "The Mist and the Wilderness: Protestant Paradox in Gifford and Webster")
by Bryan Crockett. 220 pgs.
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama (Chap. VIII "John Webster - Cyril Tourneur")
by Frederick S. Boas. 446 pgs.
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Poets and Story-Tellers: A Book of Critical Essays ("John Webster" begins on p. 127)
by David Cecil. 208 pgs.
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Poetic Drama: An Anthology of Plays in Verse from the Ancient Greek to the Modern American ("The White Devil" by John Webster begins on p. 376 ) (1941)
by Alfred Kreymborg. 858 pgs.
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Astrology and English Literature, in Contemporary Review (Webster's Duchess of Malfi)
by Annabella Kitson. 8 pgs.
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