Download or read book Tragic Structure in the Plays of John Webster and Its Relation to Early Jacobean Drama written by Lee Bliss Braunmuller and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gale Researcher Guide for John Webster and the Height of Jacobean Tragedy written by Rachel Ellen Clark and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gale Researcher Guide for: John Webster and the Height of Jacobean Tragedy is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
Download or read book Tragedy and the Jacobean Temper the Major Plays of John Webster written by Richard A. Bodtke and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Webster The Duchess of Malfi written by David Carnegie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Duchess of Malfi is generally regarded as John Webster's finest play, a masterpiece of tragic depth and emotional complexity. The conflict between private love and public political behaviour for a passionate but circumscribed woman is as theatrically pertinent now as when first performed. This timely Handbook: - Examines the play's sources and its cultural context - Offers a detailed theatrical commentary that aids visualisation of the underlying dynamics and structure of the play in performance, and explores performance possibilities - Analyses influential productions on stage and screen, from when it was first performed by the actors of Shakespeare's theatre company, the King's Men, to the present day - Presents key critical debates and assessments of The Duchess of Malfi
Download or read book Dramatic Imagery in the Plays of John Webster written by Susan H. McLeod and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Duchess of Malfi written by John Webster and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Tragedy and the Jacobean Temper written by Richard Bodtke and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Selected Plays of John Webster written by Jonathan Dollimore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-09-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of John Webster are read and seen more widely today than at any time since they were written - provoking much disagreement in the process. The continuing debate about his political, religious and philosophical attitudes, his formal skills and the importance of his plays for understanding the changing culture in which they were written, make Webster the most controversial of all Jacobean dramatists. This volume includes freshly collated, fully annotated and cross-referenced texts of his three best-known plays, together with introductions and a useful critical bibliography.
Download or read book The Dramatic Works of John Webster Volume 2 written by John Webster and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of plays by Jacobean playwright John Webster, including the macabre and highly influential tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, as well as several other works exploring themes of revenge and corruption. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book John Webster s Dismal Tragedy written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets, mensonges, inceste, folie, apparitions, torture mentale, corps mutilés, meurtres atroces : ces ingrédients se retrouvent tous dans La Duchesse de Malfi (1614), plongeant ses spectateurs dans un tourbillon de passions et d'émotions intenses. La pièce de Webster a été décrite comme baroque, grotesque, maniériste, gothique ou féministe. Alors que Bosola, l'éternel mécontent, incarne l'excès et l'outrance typiques de l'époque prémoderne, la Duchesse symbolise quant à elle la transgression féminine avant d'être finalement broyée par le mal et le pouvoir masculin. Si la dimension spectaculaire et sanglante du texte de Webster est réelle, elle ne doit pas occulter d'autres aspects d'une oeuvre parfois qualifiée de tragédie de la connaissance. Dans la tirade finale de Delio qui encourage le spectateur à faire bon usage de toutes les vies brisées qui lui ont été montrées, l'ironie du dramaturge est à son comble : la pièce s'achève en effet par un plaidoyer pour une "vie intègre" alors que vient de triompher le vice. Chef-d'oeuvre grinçant du théâtre jacobéen, La Duchesse de Malfi réinvente le genre de la tragédie de la vengeance et, au-delà de son univers tragique, elle explore les thématiques relatives à la construction du genre, à la hiérarchie sociale d'une société en pleine mutation, et à la frontière parfois ténue entre désir, violence, rire et cruauté. Dans le cadre de la préparation à l'agrégation d'anglais (2019-2020), ce volume offre de nouvelles perspectives sur la pièce et examine une variété de questions ayant trait à la politique, au genre, à l'esthétique, à la textualité, à la matérialité, et à la mise en scène. Ses chapitres reviennent sur la richesse et la complexité de cette tragédie tout en reflétant les courants critiques les plus récents des études théâtrales consacrées aux pièces anglaises de la première modernité.
Download or read book The Theatre of Civilized Excess written by Anja Müller-Wood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage’s professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion – their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror – testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners’ attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging.
Download or read book John Webster written by Elmer Edgar Stoll and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from John Webster: The Periods of His Work as Determined by His Relations to the Drama of His Day The first three chapters of this book, together with the scheme of the whole, formed my doctor's thesis at Munich in the summer of 1904. Since then, these chapters have been revised, and the remaining ones written. Some headings in the scheme, however, I have had to pass over and reserve for future treatment. They are the very interesting ones of the relationship of Webster's style - i. the style of the White Devil and Malfi - not only to Marston's and Tourneur's, but more especially to John Donne's; and of Webster's relationship as a thinker to tendencies other than dramatic in his day. It would have been interesting to attempt some investigation of his life. That I renounced at the start: my task was large enough without it, and a long stay in London was out of the question. But I hope that in Chapter I. I have done something in a negative way. by determining that the dramatist was not the John Webster, Clothworker, who made his will and died in 1625, nor a tailor at all. The book is merely for the Elizabethan scholar. I have not scrupled, in the footnotes, to turn for a moment to this side or to that, in order to clear up a problem in authorship or to settle a date, even though the matter did not concern Webster. I have suffered footnotes, appendices, and index of plays and authors to swell to more than half of the whole. And I have deliberately omitted to give the stories of the plays treated, or summaries of my own argument at the end of chapter or section. Some of the references, I fear, may prove incorrect. I have verified them, in all possible cases, in the final copy; but many of the works cited were then inaccessible - beyond sea, - and, as for the rest, our old dramatists - even Bullen's - are generally printed so carelessly that one can never be sure of the numbers of act and scene. My researches upon the source of the White Devil are unfinished. I was (and am still) convinced that one special book or Ms. served Webster; the rare manet alta mente repostum was my main clew; but, after months of travel and labor, many of the earliest and best accounts of Vittoria still eluded me. The gentleman who alone has dealt with the story of Vittoria like a historian, the Prefect of the Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele, at Rome, told me he himself had copies of all the contemporary accounts, and offered to put them at my disposal. This he never did; and a very interesting point in the relations of English and Italian literature lies, tantalizingly, still in the dark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book John Webster Politics and Tragedy written by Robert Patrick Griffin and published by Salzburg : Inst. f. Eng. Sprache u. Literatur, Univ. Salzburg. This book was released on 1972 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Webster written by Clifford Leech and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical study of the 17th century playwright & his works, including a bibliography.
Download or read book John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama written by Rupert Brooke and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how certain animals keep warm, how the human body loses and retains its heat, and how various types of clothing and dwellings aid in heat retention.
Download or read book John Webster Renaissance Dramatist written by David Coleman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transgressive and darkly brilliant, the drama of John Webster has long been recognised as one of the crowning glories of the English Renaissance. But this apparently idiosyncratic individual, fascinated by insanity, corruption, and the macabre, was also a successful businessman, involved in trade networks beyond the theatre, and writing most of his plays in apparently amicable collaboration with a host of other dramatists. Such is the enigma of John Webster; caricatured as a pessimist obsessed with morbidity and death, Webster's true significance lies in his ability to perceive that the darkness at the heart of humanity must co-exist with the routine and the social interaction of everyday life. John Webster, Renaissance Dramatist locates Webster's remarkable plays within the context of the culture from which they sprang. Examining the uncertain political, religious, and economic climate of Jacobean London, this book offers a guide to one of the most distinctive, yet most elusive, voices of Renaissance England. Introducing readers to both the great tragedies, The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, and the lesser-known works, this book explains why Webster has fascinated and horrified generations of critics and theatregoers, and argues that the relevance and resonance of Webster's drama continues to grow.
