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The Duchess of Malfi (New Mermaids) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Duchess of MalfiUniversally considered Webster's masterpiece, this violent play presents a dark and disturbing portrait of the human condition. The play's heroine is imprisoned by her brothers because she bore a commoner's son.
Full description- Publisher: METHUEN DRAMA
- Published: 29 August 2003
- Format: Paperback 192 pages
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- Categories: Plays, Playscripts | Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800 | Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights
- ISBN 13: 9780713667912 ISBN 10: 0713667915
- Sales rank: 81,552
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Full description for The Duchess of Malfi
One of the most haunting tragedies written in the Jacobean period, The Duchess of Malfi (1614) adapts the true story of a noble Italian widow who secretly marries her steward and has children with him. Her two brothers, enraged by this act of female self-determination, begin to spy on the happy family, entrap them and subject their sister to fiendish psychological torture before they have her strangled. Unlike his sources, Webster does not condemn the Duchess for lasciviousness, nor does he allow her brothers to live. As the introduction to this edition shows, the play is replete with reverberations of earlier tragedies, most prominently Hamlet and Othello, and has few equals as a skilful and stirring rendition of Jacobean dramatic fashions.
