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Feb 7, 2013 · THE DUCHESS OF MALFI. FOOTNOTES: INTRODUCTORY NOTE. Of John Webster's life almost nothing is known. The dates 1580-1625 given for his birth and death are conjectural inferences, about which the best that can be said is that no known facts contradict them.
The Duchess of Malfi was first printed as a small Quarto, in 1623. It was reprinted, with some trifling variations, in 1640 and 1678. But, according to Dyce, the First Edition is 'by far the most correct of the Quartos.'
The Duchess of Malfi Silvio. Antonio Bologna, my lord. Ferd. Our sister Duchess' great master of her household: Give him the jewel. When shall we leave this sportive action, And fall to action indeed? Cast. Methinks, my lord, You should not desire to go to war in person. Ferd. Now, for some gravity; why, my lord? Cast.
The Duchess of Malfi. This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online.
The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy written by English dramatist John Webster in 1612–1613. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then later to a larger audience at The Globe, in
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But in Vittoria Corombona and The Duchess of Malfi, each part is etched with equal effort after luminous effect upon a murky background; and the whole play is a mosaic of these parts. It lacks the breadth which comes from concentration on a master-motive.
“The duchess was deliver’d of a son, ’tween the hours twelve and one in the night, Anno Dom. 1504,”—that’s this year—“decimo nono Decembris,”—that’s this night—“taken according to the meridian of Malfi,”—that’s our duchess: happy discovery!—“The lord of the first house being combust in the ...
These pages are dedicated to one of the greatest achievements of English Renaissance drama, John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi. Here you will find the complete text of the play with links in each scene to notes and commentary.
