John Webster

Consider The Duchess of Malfi as a portrait of the corrupt society and moral confusions.

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Answer: The two tragedies of Webster, each named after the heroine, contain two of the most memorable figures in the whole range of Jacobean drama. Vittoria Corombona, ‘the white devil’, is the heroine of her play in a much more problem­atic sense than that in which the Duchess of Malfi is of hers. The Duchess […]

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Consider The Duchess of Malfi as a revenge tragedy.

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Answer: The revenge play or revenge tragedy is a tragedy in which a murder victim is avenged, often by a younger kinsmen, and usually resulting in the death of both murderer and avenger. The form of play was extremely popular in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras with the best-known examples being Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish

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