Authors:John Webster, Rene Wei,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: duchess, devil, malfi, oxford, world, cuckold, classics, case, plays, law, cure
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-07-29
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0199539286
ISBN-13: 9780199539284
John Webster was a radically and creatively experimental dramatist. This volume offers his two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil’s Law-Case, and the comedy written with William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold. The texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation.
Author: Ronald Malfi
Publisher: Leisure Book
Keywords: snow
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 2010-02-23
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0843963557
ISBN-13: 9780843963557
A brutal snowstorm has blanketed the area and brought with it translucent phantoms that invade humans and drive them to murder.
Author: John Webster
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: malfi, duchess
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 0554353415
ISBN-13: 9780554353418
Author: John Webster
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: malfi, duchess
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1419160273
ISBN-13: 9781419160271
ANTONIO. ’Tis great pity He should be thus neglected: I have heard He ’s very valiant. This foul melancholy Will poison all his goodness; for, I ’ll tell you, If too immoderate sleep be truly said.
Author: Ronald Damien Malfi
Publisher: Medallion Press
Keywords: alley, shamrock
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1933836946
ISBN-13: 9781933836942
When Secret Service agent John Mavio infiltrates a ring of organized crime leaders involved in an elaborate counterfeit money operation, including two violent Irish criminals from Hell’s Kitchen, he risks his life to stop what may be the most sinister operation in the country’s history. Every step of drugs, booze, and blood brings him closer to his own demise in a gory, dangerous undercover world far removed from his own personal reality, which includes his pregnant wife and terminally ill father. But when these two worlds meet, Mavio must implement every skill he has learned to save himse
Author: John Webster
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Keywords: mermaids, new, malfi, duchess
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0713667915
ISBN-13: 9780713667912
One of the most haunting tragedies written in the Jacobean period, The Duchess of Malfi (1614) adapts the true story of a noble Italian widow who secretly marries her steward and has children with him. Her two brothers, enraged by this act of female self-determination, begin to spy on the happy family, entrap them and subject their sister to fiendish psychological torture before they have her strangled. Unlike his sources, Webster does not condemn the Duchess for lasciviousness, nor does he allow her brothers to live. As the introduction to this edition shows, the play is replete with reverber
Authors:John Webster, Leah Marcus,
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Keywords: drama, modern, arden, malfi, duchess
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 2009-10-27
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 1904271510
ISBN-13: 9781904271512
The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in the classroom. The story of the Duchess’s secret marriage and the cruel revenge of her brothers has fascinated and appalled audiences for centuries. This new Arden edition offers readers a comprehensive, illustrated introduction to the play’s historical, critical and performance history. The text is modernized and edited to the highest scholarly standards, with textual notes and commentary notes on the same page for ease of reference. Editor Leah Marcus is a Profes
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