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The Selected Plays of John Webster

The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, The Devil's Law Case

Jonathan Dollimore editor Alan Sinfield editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:8th Sep '83

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This volume includes freshly collated, fully annotated and cross-referenced texts of John Webster's three best-known plays.

The continuing debate about John Webster's 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 him the most controversial of all Jacobean dramatists.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.

ISBN: 9780521271035

Dimensions: 220mm x 150mm x 20mm

Weight: 300g

400 pages