John Webster

The White Devil

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• American Poetry
• Verlag: Culturea
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 170mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9791041995318
• Artikelnr.: 70267780

Autorenporträt

Webster's life is obscure and the dates of his birth and death are not known. His father, a carriage maker also named John Webster, married a blacksmith's daughter named Elizabeth Coates on 4 November 1577 and it is likely that Webster was born not long after, in or near London. The family lived in St Sepulchre's parish. His father John and uncle Edward were Freemen of the Merchant Taylors' Company and Webster attended Merchant Taylors' School in Suffolk Lane, London. On 1 August 1598, John Webster, lately of the New Inn was admitted to the Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court; in view of the legal interests evident in his dramatic work, this may be the playwright. Webster married 17-year-old Sara Peniall on 18 March 1605 at St Mary's Church, Islington. A special licence was needed to permit a wedding in Lent, as Sara was seven months pregnant. Their first child, John Webster III, was baptised at the parish of St Dunstan-in-the-West on 8 March 1606. Bequests in the will of a neighbour who died in 1617, indicate that other children were born to him.