Plays by Webster & Tourneur

Plays by Webster & Tourneur
Author: John Addington Symonds
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732647838

Reproduction of the original: Plays by Webster & Tourneur by John Addington Symonds

The Duchess of Malfi

The Duchess of Malfi
Author: John Webster
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1997-06-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780719043574

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.

The Changeling

The Changeling
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1653
Genre: English drama
ISBN:

The Changeling is a popular Renaissance tragedy in which the relationship between money, sex, and power is explored. Frequently performed and studied in University courses, it is a key text in the New Mermaids series.

The Selected Plays of John Webster

The Selected Plays of John Webster
Author: Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 1983-09-08
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780521249270

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.

Jacobean Tragedy

Jacobean Tragedy
Author: Irving Ribner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2017-03-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1315302136

The work of dramatists such as George Chapman, Thomas Heywood, Cyril Tourneur, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford can profitably be studied as attempts to construct a new moral order in response to the absence or weakening of the religious sanction. In this study, first published in 1962, the author examines these texts in detail, and throws a great deal of light on the plays as plays. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.

The Works of John Webster

The Works of John Webster
Author: John Webster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1995
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521260619

This is the third and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster. It contains the final complete play in the edition, the City comedy Anything for a Quiet Life, as well as Webster's spectacular Lord Mayor's pageant Monuments of Honour and his Induction and additions to John Marston's The Malcontent. Webster's non-dramatic work is also included: the deeply felt verse elegy to Prince Henry entitled A Monumental Column, his various shorter poems, including verses for the engraving of The Progeny of ... Prince James, and the thirty-two New Characters added to the sixth edition of Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters. This Cambridge critical edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays, poetry and prose, and incorporates the most recent editorial scholarship, including valuable information on Webster's share in the collaborative plays, and new critical methods and textual theory.

Three Revenge Tragedies

Three Revenge Tragedies
Author: Cyril Tourneur
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2004-08-26
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0141958898

Following the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign in the early seventeenth century, the new court of King James was beset by political instability and moral corruption. This atmosphere provided fertile ground for the dramatists of the age, whose plays explore the ways in which social decadence and the abuse of power breed resentment and lead inexorably to violence and bloody retribution. In Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy, the debauched son of an Italian Duke attempts to rape the virtuous Gloriana - a veiled reference to Elizabeth I. Webster's The White Devil depicts a sinister world of intrigue and murderous infidelity, while The Changeling, perhaps Middleton's supreme achievement, powerfully portrays a woman bringing about her own unwitting destruction. All three are masterpieces of brooding intensity, dominated by images of decay, disillusionment and death.