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«The Duchess of Malfi» is John Webster's Jacobean drama, published in the New Mermaids series by A & C Black in paperback (192 pages, in English).
A young widow, the Duchess of Malfi, secretly marries her steward. Her brothers, the Cardinal and Duke Ferdinand, see it as an affront to their honour and inheritance, and respond with violence. The play portrays the corruption of power and revenge in the Renaissance court, with dialogue of great tragic intensity.
Fourth revised edition, edited by Brian Gibbons and published in 2001; the volume includes an introduction, notes and recommended bibliography.
For students of English literature and theatre, actors, directors and audiences of Jacobean drama.
John Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. His life and career overlapped with Shakespeare's.
