The Duchess of Malfi is amacabre, tragic play which is often performed and studied at A leveland university. This Arden edition brings all the scholarship andcomprehensive analysis associated with the series and offers readers adeeper understanding...
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The Duchess of Malfi is amacabre, tragic play which is often performed and studied at A leveland university. This Arden edition brings all the scholarship andcomprehensive analysis associated with the series and offers readers adeeper understanding of the play than competing editions. Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- General editors' preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- Who was John Webster? -- Webster and Jacobean nostalgia -- The play and the historical sources -- The Aragonian brothers -- Clandestine marriage -- Bosola -- Language and action -- Language and source -- Melancholy and determinism -- The text -- Early performances and afterlives -- Quarto paratext -- THE DUCHESS OF MALFI -- Appendix 1: The story of the Duchess of Malfi -- Appendix 2: A contemporary werewolf -- Appendix 3: Musical setting for the madman's song, 'O let us howl' (4.2.60-71) -- Abbreviations and references -- Abbreviations used in notes -- Abbreviations for Shakespeare plays -- Editions of The Duchess of Malfi collated -- Other works cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
