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The Duchess of Malfi - Brown, John
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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,…mehr

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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.
An authoritative edition of one of the most popular plays in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Autorenporträt
John Brown, D. D. (1778-1848), of Langton, was a theological writer. He was born at Glasgow, licensed by the presbytery of Glasgow, ordained minister of Gartmore , and joined the Free Church in 1843. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Glasgow in November 1815. He was one of the early friends and promoters of evangelical views in the church of Scotland, and a contributor to the 'Christian Instructor.' He was the author of two books which attained fame, Vindication of Presbyterian Church Government, in reply to the Independents and The Exclusive Claims of Puseyite Episcopalians to the Christian Ministry indefensible.