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The White Devil by John Webster

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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

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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....
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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...
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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...


News and Journals
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
White hurt as Devils waste comeback
02/20/2003: 899 words, approx. 3 pages
00-00-0000 White hurt as Devils waste comeback By TOM GULITTI, STAFF WRITER Date: 02-20-2003, Thursday Section: SPORTS Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B Last version in late editions EAST RUTHERFORD -- The Devils should be able to...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Devils to visit White House
09/29/2003: 359 words, approx. 1 pages
TOM GULITTI, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-29-2003 Devils to visit White House -- Stanley Cup champs to be honored in Rose Garden with President Bush By TOM GULITTI, STAFF WRITER Date: 09-29-2003, Monday Section: SPORTS Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star...
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Interracial marriages surge across U.S.
4/13/2007: 1,671 words, approx. 6 pages
The charisma king of the 2008 presidential field. The world's best golfer. The captain of the New York Yankees. Besides superstardom, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter have another common bond: Each is the child of an interracial marriage.For most of U.S. history, in...
 


Criticism and Essays
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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