General introduction. The white devil
Author | : John Webster |
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Total Pages | : 316 |
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Author | : John Webster |
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Author | : John Webster |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2014-05-29 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1408145111 |
"Woman to man is either a god or a wolf" John Webster's first independent play, The White Devil, originally performed in 1612, centres on the beautiful Vittoria Corombona and her lover, Duke Brachiano, whose passionate, adulterous affair unleashes the powerful revenge of their enemies. While clearly guilty of lust and murder, these unsavoury characters become startlingly heroic under pressure, challenging both conventional moral judgments and oppressive social forces. This revised student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the author, date and sources, theme, critical interpretation and stage history. The Introduction discusses Webster's radical experimentation with tragic modes, his interest in the heroic potential of women, and evaluates the handling of both in recent stage productions.
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Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 9780877521198 |
Author | : John Webster |
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Author | : John (Schriftsteller) Webster |
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Author | : John Webster |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2017-10-25 |
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ISBN | : 9780265738160 |
Excerpt from The White Devil As a student of Webster, I have been most fortunate. The earliest and greatest of my debts is to Professor F. P. Wilson, who super vised my first steps and provided a model of imaginative scholar ship; to acknowledge my indebtedness to him is an occasion for both thankfulness and humility. In succeeding years my colleagues, students, and friends at stratford-upon-avon and Birmingham have helped me in many ways, and from elsewhere Mr John Crow, Dr George Hunter, and Professor Fredson Bowers have most kindly come to my assistance. I am also indebted to Keble Plays, the dramatic society of my Oxford college, for the opportunity of producing The White Devil 5 I am most grateful to everyone who took part in that production. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.