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...such classics as Everyman, Twelfth Night, Dr. Faustus; such a novelty as W. S. Gilbert's Tom Cobb, or Fortune's Toy; such modern plays as Biography, High Tor, The Petrified Forest. Last week it tackled John Webster's difficult Elizabethan horror play, The Duchess of Malfi, proved itself braver than Broadway, which last produced the play in 1858. (Two seasons ago Orson Welles planned to do it, got cold feet...
...Drama and the New," ridiculing the Elizabethan dramatists. This work holds that many of the seventeenth century plays tend toward a childish over emphasis of the horror element, and contrasts the unpretentious realism of the modern stage. In spirited refutation, O'Casey tied Webster's "Ducieas of Malfi," and pointed out that the swords and bloody charnel-houses of Webster are no more to be taken seriously than the telephones and camisoled ladies seen on the boards today. Archer has based his arguments merely on the mechanics of the dramatist. The case against him was complete when O'Casey read...
...Webster's plays, the best is "The Duchess of Malfi," dealing with crimes and horrors, as do all his others. He is constantly introducing all manner of unhappiness brought about by terrible means, and the crimes which his characters do not commit might be regarded as not worth committing; but the play, for all its hideousness, is redeemed by the imagination and poetry it contains, Webster does not excel in his plots and characters, but his dramatic situations are very effective, and once seen are not soon to be forgotten...
...Copeland will speak this evening on Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, Ford, and other Elizabethan dramatists. The lecture-which will be an attempt to compare Shakespeare with lesser Elizabethans-will include comment on performances, an anecdote or two of well-known players, and reading from "Macbeth," "The Duchess of Malfi," and a "Woman Killed with Kindness...
Lecture. Shakespeare briefly compared with other Elizabethan Dramatists. Readings from "Macbeth," "The Duchess of Malfi," and "A Woman Killed with Kindness." Mr. Copeland. Sever...