Word: malfi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White Devil, by John Webster. It was Shakespeare's destiny to dwarf his playwriting contemporaries, which by no means makes them dwarfs. Webster, best known for The Duchess of Malfi, was a splendid poet who mixed beauty with horror. If he spilled too much blood on stage, he also drenched the boards with passion. The decisive motion in The White Devil is a plunging dagger, but its determining mood is an obsessive sense of evil. In an admirable off-Broadway revival in modern dress, the play leaps the centuries with ease-it is galvanically alive...
...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...
...story was old when John Webster used it to write that goriest of Elizabethan dramas, The Duchess of Malfi; Webster borrowed it from a story...