The Duchess of Malfi: By John Webster / Edition 2

by John Brown, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich

Overview

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an improved, accessible and throughly up-to-date edition. Starting with the authoritative Revels Plays edition of 1964, John Russell Brown has augmented the notes and collations, and casts new light on Webster's dramatic dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction encompasses a stage history from its well-documented early performances right through to recent productions in the twenty first century. The bibliography has also been expanded.

Students, actors, directors, academics and theatre-goers will find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719075186
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2010
Series:	The Revels Plays
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

John Russell Brown is Professor of Theatre at Middlesex Universityand was recently Visiting Professor at Columbia University

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Author
The Play: Presentation
The Play: Contexts and Arguments
The Quarto Text of 1623
Early performances
Theatre productions
Criticism and Scholarship
This Edition and its predecessors
*THE DUCHESS OF MALFI*
Appendices
I Reprint from Painter's *Palace of Pleasure*
II The Music
III Webster's Borrowing: an index
Bibliography
Index