SOURCE: "The White Devil and the Aesthetics of Chaos," in Skull Beneath the Skin: The Achievement of John Webster, Southern Illinois University Press, 1986, pp. 254-95.
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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