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"Neill's edit of the play is very well done. ... If there's a more knowledgeable or erudite unraveling of the play, I haven't seen it." --Steve Sohmer, Comitatus

This Norton Critical Edition of John Webster's 1612-13 tragedy offers a newly edited and annotated text together... Read Full Overview

The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the
early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in
the classroom. The story of the Duchess's secret marriage and the cruel
revenge of her brothers has fascinated and appalled audiences... Read Full Overview

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster The Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612-13. It was first performed... Read Full Overview

An authoritative edition of one of the most popular plays in Elizabethan and Jacobean England

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchesss 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... Read Full Overview

The evils of greed and ambition overwhelm love, innocence, and the bonds of kinship in this dark tragedy concerning the secret marriage of a noblewoman and a commoner.

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster.The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance... Read Full Overview

Classic drama from Longman Literature

The best-known of the Jacobean tragedies; an exemplary model of the "tragedy of blood."

The evils of greed and ambition overwhelm love, innocence, and the bonds of kinship in this dark tragedy concerning the secret marriage of a noblewoman and a commoner.