Word: duchesses
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...talks roused little interest at the time, and were soon overshadowed by the melodrama of Edward's abdication in order to marry "the woman I love''-the twice-divorced American socialite, Wallis Warfield Simpson. Since then, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, growing paler and frailer with the passage of years, have drifted from Portugal to the West Indies, from Manhattan to Paris. Their pastimes have been the trifling ones of showing up at balls, growing roses...
...Dancer in Darkness, by David Stacton. Seventeenth century Playwright John Webster's ill-fated heroine, the Duchess of Malfi, is chillfully done in, this time in silky, horrifying prose...
...Dancer in Darkness, by David Stac-ton. Seventeenth century Playwright John Webster's ill-fated heroine, the duchess of Malfi, is chillfully done in, this time in silky, horrifying prose...
...Dancer in Darkness, by David Stacton. In this neo-Gothic retelling, an old and bloody tale-best known in John Webster's 16th century play, The Duchess of Malfi-becomes a great horror story...
Three of the four episodes comprise a movie that a Parisian goes to see one afternoon after a spat with his wife. The first is a grisly little playlet borrowed from Stendhal's Italian Chronicles, about an aging Venetian duchess who gets even with her handsome, young, philandering lover by having him chased by a band of cutthroats. He finds momentary sanctuary in a church where a funeral is in progress. But when he discovers the funeral is for him (a grim whimsy of the duchess'), he runs out and is run through by the bully boys...