The Duchess Of Malfi Sparknotes
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A Comprehensive Summary and Analysis of The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" is a Jacobean tragedy, likely written around 1611 and published in 1623. The play, based on a story from William Painter's "Palace of Pleasure," plunges into the treacherous world of the Italian Renaissance court, exploring themes of power, corruption, love, and revenge. Webster's vivid portrayal of moral decay and the fierce pursuit of pleasure remains chillingly relevant.
The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook
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A Play Analysis
"Play Analysis: A Casebook on Modern Western Drama is a combined play-analysis textbook and course companion that contains twelve essays on major dramas from the modern European and American theaters: among them, Ghosts, The Ghost Sonata, The Doctor’s Dilemma, A Man’s a Man, The Homecoming, The Hairy Ape, The Front Page, Of Mice and Men, Our Town, The Glass Menagerie, and Death of a Salesman. Supplementing these essays are a Step-by-Step Approach to Play Analysis, a Glossary of Dramatic Terms, Study Guides, Topics for Writing and Discussion, and bibliographies. Written with college students in mind (and possibly also advanced high school students), these critical essays cover some of the central plays treated in courses on modern Euro-American drama and will provide students with practical models to help them improve their own writing and analytical skills. The author is a “close reader” committed to a detailed yet objective examination of the structure, style, imagery, and language of a play. Moreover, he is concerned chiefly with dramatic analysis that can be of benefit not only to playreaders and theatergoers, but also to directors, designers, and even actors—that is, with analysis of character, action, dialogue, and setting that can be translated into concepts for theatrical production, or that can at least provide the kind of understanding of a play with which a theater practitioner could fruitfully quarrel."