The White Devil

The White Devil

Author: John Webster

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-15

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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The White Devil by John Webster The White Devil, a five-act tragedy by John Webster, performed and published as The White Divel in 1612. Based on historical events that occurred in Italy in the 1880s, this sombre Jacobean drama is considered one of the finest of the period. The White Devil focuses on the love story between the Duke of Brachiano and Vittoria Corombona, two of the many unscrupulous characters in the work. Despite her role as a ferocious heroine, Vittoria elicits sympathy in her attempt to endure a deeply corrupt society. In The White Devil, both evil and good characters are involved in schemes involving political intrigue, adulterous desire and bloody revenge. Though its plot construction is weak, the game is known for its skillful characterizations and effective use of dramatic tension and physical horror.


Penguin Classics

Penguin Classics

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 941

ISBN-13: 1101578149

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A Complete Annotated Listing More than 1,500 titles in print Authoritative introductions and notes by leading academics and contemporary authors Up-to-date translations from award-winning translators Readers guides and other resources available online Penguin Classics on air online radio programs


The White Devil

The White Devil

Author: John Webster

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-04

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The White Devil" by John Webster. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


The Duchess of Malfi

The Duchess of Malfi

Author: John Webster

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1997-06-15

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780719043574

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More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.


Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000

Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000

Author: Amnon Kabatchnik

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 647

ISBN-13: 0810883546

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Describes more than 80 full-length plays produced in the last quarter of the 20th century, with an emphasis on New York and London performances.


Four Revenge Tragedies

Four Revenge Tragedies

Author: Thomas Kyd

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-05-08

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 1472573579

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Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique social and cultural milieu where dark fantasies of revenge are variously played out. In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy a grieving father seeks public justice for the murder of his son by envious princelings. When his attempts are thwarted he turns a court spectacle of murder into the 'real' thing. Blackly comic in its tone and style, The Revenger's Tragedy (anon.) presents vengeance as mimetic art, witty and cruel. Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore represents an innovative re-working of the genre as a brother's love for his sister leads to his spectacular revenge on his rival, her husband, in a society in which brutal retaliation for perceived wrong is the norm. In Webster's The White Devil crimes of passion ignite revenge in the courts of the Italian city states. This student edition contains fully annotated, modernized texts of each play together with an introduction discussing the dramatic and poetic style of each play, focusing on its action and play of ideas.


The White Devil (Classic Reprint)

The White Devil (Classic Reprint)

Author: John Webster

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780265738160

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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.


The Changeling

The Changeling

Author: Thomas Middleton

Publisher:

Published: 1653

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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The Changeling is a popular Renaissance tragedy in which the relationship between money, sex, and power is explored. Frequently performed and studied in University courses, it is a key text in the New Mermaids series.


The Duchess of Malfi

The Duchess of Malfi

Author: John Webster

Publisher:

Published: 1896

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13:

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John Webster's play "The Duchess of Malfi" is a violent play that presents a dark, disturbing portrait of the human condition... The title character is a widow with two brothers: Ferdinand and the Cardinal. In the play's opening act, the brothers try to persuade their sister not to seek a new husband. Her resistance to their wishes sets in motion a chain of secrecy, plotting, and violence. The relationship between Ferdinand and the Duchess is probably one of the most unsettling brother-sister relationships in literature. The play is full of both onstage killings and great lines. The title character is one of stage history's intriguing female characters; she is a woman whose desires lead her to defy familial pressure. Another fascinating and complex character is Bosola, who early in the play is enlisted to act as a spy. Overall, a compelling and well-written tragedy. --Michael J. Mazza at Amazon.com.