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| Name: |
John Webster | | Birth Date: |
c. 1580 | | Death Date: |
c. 1634 | | Place of Birth: |
London, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
dramatist |
summary from source:
 Biography of John Webster
384 words, approx. 1.3 pages
 The reputation of the English dramatist John Webster (ca. 1580-ca. 1634) rests on two blank-verse tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi. He was a painstaking literary craftsman, much concerned with the philosophy and the psychology of evil.... summary from source:
Biography of John Webster
9898 words, approx. 33 pages
 Despite his seminal importance in Jacobean drama (most critics rank him as second only to William Shakespeare as a tragedian), very little was known about John Webster's life until recently. However, the researches of Mary Edmond and the discovery in 198... summary from source:
 Biography of John Webster
8858 words, approx. 29.5 pages
Despite his seminal importance in Jacobean drama (most critics rank him as second only to Shakespeare as a tragedian), very little was known about John Webster's life until recently. However, the researches of Mary Edmond and the discovery in 1985 of a f...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The White Devil Information
1,219 words, approx. 4 pages
The White Devil (1612) is a revenge tragedy by the English playwright John Webster (c.1580 – c. 1625). The play was a notorious failure when it premiered onstage — Webster complained that it was acted in the dead of winter before an...
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Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Charles R. Forker
7,196 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following excerpt, Forker details how Webster's intermingling of several dramatic conventions (particularly Shakespearean) in The White Devil "produced a hybrid genre that not only allowed love to be pitted against death in the most violent and terrifying fashion but could be made to promote unsettling doubts about the validity and safety of romantic emotion itself"
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