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The Duchess of Malfi : an authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism /

By: Webster, John, 1580?-1625?.
Contributor(s): Neill, Michael, 1942-.
Series: Norton critical editions.Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015Description: xlii, 405 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393923254 paperback alkaline paper; 9780393923254:; 0393923258 paperback alkaline paper.Subject(s): Webster, John, 1580?-1625?. Duchess of Malfi | English drama -- Retribution -- Brothers and sisters | English drama -- Stuarts -- 17th centuryDDC classification: 822.3
Contents:
List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The text of The Duchess of Malfi -- Collation -- Contexts : sources and analogues. The infortunate marriage of a gentleman called Antonio Bologna with the Duchess of Malfi, and the pitiful death of them both (1567) / William Painter. From "The fourth day's exercise" (1582) / George Whetstone. From "Admirable and memorable histories containing the wonders of our time" (1607) / Simon Goulart. Of whoredoms committed under the color of marriage / Thomas Beard -- [Contexts] : widows. From "Sir Thomas Overbury his wife' (1616) / John Webster -- [Conexts] : remembering the dead. From "Prince Henry's obsequies" (1612) / George Wither. A monumental column (1613) / John Webster. The speech of Amade le Grand (1624) / John Webster. From "Ancient funeral monuments" (1631) / John Weever -- [Contexts] : contemporary responses. From '" and satirical epigrams" (1617) / Henry Fitzgeffrey. Horatio Busino, chaplain to the Venetian Ambassador, describes a performance of "the Duchess of Malfi" (1618) / Horatio Busino -- Criticism : sociopolitical background. From "the alienated intellectuals of early Stuart England"/ Mark H. Curtis -- [Criticism] : Webster's reputation, seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. From "Webster : the critical heritage" / Don D, Moore -- [Criticism] : the play in its own time. The duchess of Malfi : a theological approach / D. C. Gunby -- [Criticism] : theatrically orientated readings. From "The Duchess of Malfi" / Rowland Wymer -- [Criticism] : dramaturigcal approaches. Webster's realism or 'A cunning piece wrought perspective' / Inga-Stina Ewbank. From 'The Duchess of Malfi' / Lee Bliss. "Great women of pleasure" : main plot and subplot in "The Duchess of Malfi" / Christina Luckyj -- [Criticism] : feminist accounts. Defining/confining the duchess : negotiating the female body in John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" / Theodora A. Janowski -- [Criticism] : monuments and ruins. From Webster's "Worthyest monument" : the problem of posterity in "The Duchess of Malfi" / Brian Chalk -- [Criticism] : the bonds of service. From Malvolio to Malfi : managing desire in Shakespeare and Webster / Barbara Correll -- [Criticism] : afterlife. From "Shakespearean heritage and the preposterous 'Contemporary Jacobean' film : Mike Figgis' 'Hotel' " / Pascale Aebischer -- John Webster : a chronology -- Selected bibliography.
Summary: This 'Norton Critical Edition' of John Webster's 1612-13 tragedy offers a newly edited and annotated text together with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The books themes of love, loyalty, and betrayal have resonated through the centuries, making this a perennially popular play with audiences and readers alike.
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List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The text of The Duchess of Malfi -- Collation -- Contexts : sources and analogues. The infortunate marriage of a gentleman called Antonio Bologna with the Duchess of Malfi, and the pitiful death of them both (1567) / William Painter. From "The fourth day's exercise" (1582) / George Whetstone. From "Admirable and memorable histories containing the wonders of our time" (1607) / Simon Goulart. Of whoredoms committed under the color of marriage / Thomas Beard -- [Contexts] : widows. From "Sir Thomas Overbury his wife' (1616) / John Webster -- [Conexts] : remembering the dead. From "Prince Henry's obsequies" (1612) / George Wither. A monumental column (1613) / John Webster. The speech of Amade le Grand (1624) / John Webster. From "Ancient funeral monuments" (1631) / John Weever -- [Contexts] : contemporary responses. From '" and satirical epigrams" (1617) / Henry Fitzgeffrey. Horatio Busino, chaplain to the Venetian Ambassador, describes a performance of "the Duchess of Malfi" (1618) / Horatio Busino -- Criticism : sociopolitical background. From "the alienated intellectuals of early Stuart England"/ Mark H. Curtis -- [Criticism] : Webster's reputation, seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. From "Webster : the critical heritage" / Don D, Moore -- [Criticism] : the play in its own time. The duchess of Malfi : a theological approach / D. C. Gunby -- [Criticism] : theatrically orientated readings. From "The Duchess of Malfi" / Rowland Wymer -- [Criticism] : dramaturigcal approaches. Webster's realism or 'A cunning piece wrought perspective' / Inga-Stina Ewbank. From 'The Duchess of Malfi' / Lee Bliss. "Great women of pleasure" : main plot and subplot in "The Duchess of Malfi" / Christina Luckyj -- [Criticism] : feminist accounts. Defining/confining the duchess : negotiating the female body in John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" / Theodora A. Janowski -- [Criticism] : monuments and ruins. From Webster's "Worthyest monument" : the problem of posterity in "The Duchess of Malfi" / Brian Chalk -- [Criticism] : the bonds of service. From Malvolio to Malfi : managing desire in Shakespeare and Webster / Barbara Correll -- [Criticism] : afterlife. From "Shakespearean heritage and the preposterous 'Contemporary Jacobean' film : Mike Figgis' 'Hotel' " / Pascale Aebischer -- John Webster : a chronology -- Selected bibliography.

This 'Norton Critical Edition' of John Webster's 1612-13 tragedy offers a newly edited and annotated text together with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The books themes of love, loyalty, and betrayal have resonated through the centuries, making this a perennially popular play with audiences and readers alike.

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