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Duchess of Malfi

Webster, John.

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An acute reader of contemporary drama and a consummate parodist,Webster achieves in his plays a density of allusion that often producesmoments of brilliant psychological insight and theatrical ingenuity.Working with the established conventions of revenge tragedy, themalcontent youngster and dark sexual intrigue, he created in The WhiteDevil (1612) an exciting, if dramatically flawed, version of a recentItalian scandal involving the Montalto, Orsini and de' Medici families.The introduction to this edition disentangles the various plotlines,illuminates Webster's interest in women as an exploited group withinnate heroic potential and shows how he dissects the misogynistrhetoric of his male characters.

White Devil

paperback.108 pages. New Mermaids by Cyril Tourneur-The Revenger's Tragedy/edited by Brian Gibbons London/Earnest Benn Limited

Revengers Tragedy

Literature & Fiction

Tourneur, Cyril

Dramas & Plays

Blue Guide Corsica

Travel

Gant, Roland

Europe

"The Way of the World" from William Congreve. English playwright and poet (1670-1729).

Way of the World

Congreve, William

The introduction to this edition contains an analysis of the first quarto (including new evidence of its original dating) and a reconsideration of the play's complex relation to the Shakespearean histories that preceded and followed it. Charles R. Forker offers a discussion of Marlowe's use of sources, and presents a new argument for the drama's five-act structure. He delves into the conflicting and controversial opinions concerning the genre and sexual politics of the play, and also includes a full record of the stage history. Forker has collated some 46 editions (including the important, rare and usually ignored editions of Broughton and Oxberry in 1818). The appendices provide substantive variants from the Broughton and Oxberry texts as well as extracts from the sources.

Edward the Second

MARLOWE, Christopher

This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies: Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair.

Alchemist

JONSON, BEN

<p>Notes on the lexical, semantic and theatrical aspects of the text are presented alongside this Elizabethan comedy.</p>

Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613,this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic natureeven in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people inLondon's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is moreimportant than either happiness or honour; and the most covetedcommodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middletoninterweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marrytheir children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any morefor fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their propertyin the family. Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to arich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony. Likemany early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this playwarned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the countryproduces.

Chaste Maid In Cheapside

Brissenden, Alan

The villainous Barnabas betrays all, Christian and Turk, until he is undone by his evil.

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Duchess of Malfi

White Devil

Revengers Tragedy

Blue Guide Corsica

Way of the World

Edward the Second

Alchemist

Alchemist

Chaste Maid In Cheapside

Jew of Malta