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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

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John Webster: A Critical Study » Read Now
by Clifford Leech. 124 pgs.

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John Webster: The Critical Heritage » Read Now
by Don D. Moore. 164 pgs.

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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) » Read Now
by William Allan Neilson. 880 pgs.

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Skull beneath the Skin: The Achievement of John Webster » Read Now
by Charles R. Forker. 614 pgs.

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...THE SKIN The Achievement of John Webster CHARLES R. FORKER SOUTHERN...Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Webster John, 1579?-1634? -- Criticism and...Preface ix PART I...
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John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama » Read Now
by Rupert Brooke. 282 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) » Read Now
by Max Bluestone, Norman Rabkin. 300 pgs.

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...Elizabethans . London, 1950, pp. 142-144. John Lyly Lyly * G. WILSON KNIGHT...Bond R. W., ed. The Complete Works of John Lyly . 3 vols. Oxford, 1902, II, 251-261...6-15...
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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") » Read Now
by Michael Neill. 404 pgs.

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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...
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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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The Jacobean Drama: An Interpretation (Chap. IX "John Webster") » Read Now
by U. M. Ellis-Fermor. 336 pgs.

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...completion of the tragic theories of Webster, of Beaumont and Fletcher and of Shakespeare...Shakespeare, Tourneur, Ben Jonson, Webster, Middleton and Ford, products of...
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Tamburlaine's Malady: And Other Essays on Astrology in Elizabethan Drama (Discussion of John Webster begins on p. 94) » Read Now
by Johnstone Parr. 160 pgs.

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...configuration in the Dukes natal horoscope, and how John Webster employed horoscope-casting to add verisimilitude to...IX. THE DUKE OF BYRONS MALIGNANT NATIVITY 85 JOHN...
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The Complete Works of John Webster (1927) » Read Now
by F. L. Lucas. 274 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") » Read Now
by Bryan Crockett. 220 pgs.

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...CIP Frontispiece: Bishop John King preaching at Saint Pauls...Protestant Paradox in Gifford and Webster 123 7. Donne...English reformers, including John Foxe, were also...
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama (Chap. VIII "John Webster - Cyril Tourneur") » Read Now
by Frederick S. Boas. 446 pgs.

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...the reign he deserted the professional stage. Chapman and Webster produced little for it during these years, though the latters...received from her a fresh potent stimulus...
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Poets and Story-Tellers: A Book of Critical Essays ("John Webster" begins on p. 127) » Read Now
by David Cecil. 208 pgs.

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...ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA" page 1 JOHN WEBSTER page 25 THOMAS GRAY Page...and splendid. It is a lesson well worth learning. JOHN WEBSTER JOHN WEBSTER JOHN WEBSTER, in one of the...
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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) » Read Now
by Alfred Kreymborg. 858 pgs.

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...Delmore Schwartz Ben Jonson John Webster Christopher Marlowe Gordon...340 THE WHITE DEVIL , by John Webster 376 THE SHEEP WELL...star to rival him at all was John Webster...
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Webster's the White Devil, 4.2.170-71, in Explicator » Read Now
by David Carnegie. 2 pgs.

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...New Zealand NOTES 1. John Webster, The White Devil, The Complete Works of John Webster , ed. F. L. Lucas, vol. 1...Lucas242-43, The Complete Works of John Webster , n. 1...
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Astrology and English Literature, in Contemporary Review (Webster's Duchess of Malfi) » Read Now
by Annabella Kitson. 8 pgs.

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...Malfi The 17th century dramatist, John Webster, and his masterpiece, The Duchess...prediction is fully justified. Webster achieves a chilling effect...