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Duchess of Malfi (New Mermaids)
by: John Webster

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780713667912
ISBN: 0713667915
Label: Methuen Drama
Manufacturer: Methuen Drama
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: August 29, 2003
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Studio: Methuen Drama
Sales Rank: 1740

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Editorial Review:

Synopsis:
One of the most haunting tragedies written in the Jacobean period, TheDuchess of Malfi (1614) adapts the true story of a noble Italian widowwho secretly marries her steward and has children with him. Her twobrothers, enraged by this act of female self-determination, begin tospy on the happy family, entrap them and subject their sister tofiendish psychological torture before they have her strangled. Unlikehis sources, Webster does not condemn the Duchess for lasciviousness,nor does he allow her brothers to live. As the introduction to thisedition shows, the play is replete with reverberations of earliertragedies, most prominently Hamlet and Othello, and has few equals as askilful and stirring rendition of Jacobean dramatic fashions.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- 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. It means that he is vastly undervalued, if rated at all. His two main plays are great works of art and he is one of the very finest playwrights in existence. Read, and re-read.

Rating:

- 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 frequently.
Also, there was a distinct lack of information on the play's original performance, which most copies do have.

Rating:

- 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. 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!!!!!

Rating:

- Necessary background for Agatha Christie & Dorothy L. Sayers
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 ... Read More:

Rating:

- 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. The reader is presented with the Machiavellian, the honourable, the lycanthropic and the sexually potent within the space of 5 short Acts. The play is rife with bad behaviour on the part of the author and the characters within, but in a manner that makes you want to read straight through to the end.

The injustice that presents itself within this play makes the reader want to right a wrong, whilst at the same time it makes you understand why the contemporary audience would have loved it so much. Overall, sensationalised Elizabethan Drama at its best!!!

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