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The Duchess of Malfi [Audio Download]

by John Webster (Author), Robert Stephens (Narrator), Alec McCowen (Narrator), Barbara Jefford (Narrator)
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  • Audio Download
  • Listening Length: 2 hours and 20 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • Audible Release Date: 17 Dec 2010
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004GV07CA
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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Barbara Jefford, Robert Stephens, and Alec McCowen lead a distinguished company in this haunting performance of Webster's powerful tragedy of murder, revenge and thwarted love.

The play begins as a love story, with a duchess who marries beneath her class, and ends as a nightmarish tragedy as her two brothers exact their revenge, destroying themselves in the process.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By bernie VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
My preferred version is the New Mermaids edition of The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. Elisabeth M. Brennan edits this edition (ISBN: 0393900665.) I mention this, as it does not seem to be readily available. However this version will do.

I bought this after reading snippets of it in other books. I do not recall having to learn this in school. Only now do I intend to read "The White Devil" in anticipation of it being encountered in other works.

Well what do you know? This animal is based on a true story of the Duchess of Amalfi. Evidentially there were several books written on this and he picked one for the outline of the play.

The Elisabeth M. Brennan edition is almost as good as taking a class in its self. The introduction gives you a back ground and the basic story that the play was based on. You get some information on John Webster and some of his other plays. There is even a further Reading List. There are even notes on the text and how to read the notes for the different versions of the play its self. By the time you get to the play you are well prepared to read it.

The play its self has stanzas, line numbers and notes to help you through the difficulty of understanding what the words mean in context. It is almost like reading a bible. You soon pickup speed and then actually get intrigued in the writing and story.

Now I desperately want some local theater to present "The duchess of Malfi"

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Contemporary 20 April 2001
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Written by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries, many might recognize John Webster as the rat loving boy in "Shakespeare in Love". His strange fascination with taboo subjects comes to the forefront in this play, incest, murder, the character of Bosola seemingly unable to identify where his loyaltyies lie, the Duchess herself under the strain of being a good ruler when all she wants to do is live as she wants. More gutsy one might say than Shakespeare's plays - with the exception of Titus perhaps - and certainly the issues within are still relevant in this day and age. And many still controversial. Webster may not have received the commercial success of Shakespeare, but he certainly deserves some sort of cult status, a sort of Jacobean Martin Scorsese - refusing to accept the conventions of how a revenge tragedy shoud go - killing off the main part an act before the finish, having a murderous assassin with a conscience - and exploring what he wanted to. And not necessarily what the public wanted to see.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Dark and blood-soaked 16 Jun 2011
By Roman Clodia TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
Malfi is Webster's masterpiece, a dark tragedy set in a world that is brooding, bloody and corrupt. None of the characters come off well: not the incestuous and mad Ferdinand who imagines himself a werewolf; the adulterous Cardinal; the vacillating Antonio; or even the Duchess herself who woos and marries a courtier who serves her.

Despite Webster's attempt to offer hope and redemption at the end, this is a play that is soaked in blood. The light shines through it in Webster's jewel-dark poetry and the unrelenting pace, and this is fitting companion piece to the best of Marlowe and Shakespeare.
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Scholarly review of critical apparatus of this edition, not a review...
This is a review of the scholarly textual apparatus of the Arden edition of the play edited by Ms. Leah Marcus. It is not a review of the play itself. Read more
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Duchess of Malfi (New Mermaids)
I bought this for my granddaughter to revise for her English A Level. It is one of the set texts. Read more
Published on 6 July 2009 by Teresa Gamble
Webster the Wonderful.
Webster is scarcely known outside university departments and some enlightened secondary schools who have used him on A-level syllabuses. This is a pity...and a scandal. Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2007 by C. Sturgess
Clear and concise - good for students.
Clear layout with interesting insights from previous performances. It did feel a little as though it was being sponsored by one or two of them however, they were referenced so... Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2006 by Jackie Williams
Learn to love tragedies!!!!
As a teenager English Literature is one of the most mind-numbing subjects to study - or so I thought until I was introduced to this book. Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2002 by Laura
A witty and tearjerking tragicomedy- an Elizabethan must
This play is excitingly suprising in many respects. It couples hysterical comedie noire with many truly tragic moments in such a way that it leaves you wanting more. Read more
Published on 22 April 2001 by lindsaymcgarvey@hotmail.com
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