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John Webster (c. 1578 – c. 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. [1]
John Webster (born c. 1580, London, Eng.—died c. 1632) was an English dramatist whose The White Devil (c. 1609–c. 1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1612/13, published 1623) are generally regarded as the paramount 17th-century English tragedies apart from those of Shakespeare.
Bloodthirsty child, collaborative dramatist and last of the great Elizabethan playwrights. Learn more about the macabre playwright John Webster.
May 23, 2018 · Webster, John (1580–1634) English dramatist whose reputation rests upon his two great tragedies: The White Devil (c.1612), and The Duchess of Malfi (1614). Both plays explore the theme of revenge using macabre language.
John Webster. Though John Webster is considered one of the major figures of Jacobean drama, relatively little is known about his life. He is best known for writing the tragedies The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, the two most frequently staged Jacobean plays not written by Shakespeare.
Apr 3, 2012 · John Webster: A Darker Playwright for Renaissance England. In the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, a young boy seen feeding a live mouse to a cat identifies himself as John Webster (1580-1634).
Not much is known about the private life of writer John Webster, but a white devil and a duchess are his claim to fame. Read on to learn more about John Webster and his plays.
Jan 13, 2014 · The reputation of John Webster (b. 1580–d. 1634) as a playwright rests primarily on his two great tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which in their poetry and characterization are often compared to Shakespeare, but which are distinguished by their satirical bent, their distinct tonality (the macabre imagination that prompted ...
The Duchess of Malfi, five-act tragedy by English dramatist John Webster, performed 1613/14 and published in 1623. The Duchess of Malfi tells the story of the spirited duchess and her love for her trustworthy steward Antonio.
While hyperbolic, Hollywood, and of course fictional, the joke about the budding playwright John Webster is grounded in reality. His plays would introduce a new grittiness to the English stage. He was a playwright unafraid to grapple with the darker sides of mankind: whether in The White Devil (1612) or The Duchess of Malfi (1614), Webster was ...
