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The Duchess of Malfi (Revels Student Editions) [Student Edition] (Paperback)

by John Webster (Author), John Russell Brown (Editor)

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Manchester University Press; New edition edition (17 April 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0719043573
ISBN-13: 978-0719043574
Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 13 x 1.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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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 often reprinted Revels plays edition of 1964, the notes have been augmented to cast further light on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action which it implies. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its themes, action and visual imagery. 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 find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the tragedy which stands in the very first rank of plays from perhaps the greatest age of English theatre, and reasons why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Contemporary, 20 April 2001

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This review is from: The Duchess of Malfi (New Mermaids) (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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5.0 out of 5 stars Learn to love tragedies!!!!, 10 Feb 2002

By	l.dodrill@btinternet.com (London, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Duchess of Malfi (New Mermaids) (Paperback)

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. Despite being written in a completely different period, each character would fit in perfectly with the world today, and has far more twists than any soap-opera or sit-com.
Perfect for all those wonderful people who find murder, incest, power seeking, lust, mad men singing and blatant insults even mildly amusing.

Get used to the Jacobean speech, and this is one hell of a play. Read this one, and then find yourself some more Webster!!!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Necessary background for Agatha Christie & Dorothy L. Sayers, 16 Sep 2001

By	bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This review is from: The Duchess of Malfi (Longman Literature) (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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