SOURCE: "Winding and Indirect: Nonlinear Development," in A Winter's Snake: Dramatic Forms in the Tragedies of John Webster, The University of Georgia Press, 1989, pp. 1-28.
Below, Luckyj explores how Webster's repetition of large dramatic action sequences in The White Devil and in The Duchess of Malfi "allows [each play's simple linear progression to be de-emphasized and its central experience explored and intensified, " providing at the climactic center of each tragedy, "a clear and sustained dramatic experience [that] incarnates the play's central paradox."]
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