The Duchess of Malfi - Couverture souple

Webster, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0582332036 ISBN 13 : 9780582332034

Editeur : Longman, 1987

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.[1] His life and career overlapped William Shakespeare's. Webster's life is obscure, and the dates of his birth and death are not known. His father, a carriage maker also named John Webster, married a blacksmith's daughter named Elizabeth Coates on 4 November 1577, and it is likely that Webster was born not long after in or near London. The family lived in St. Sepulchre's parish. Father John, and Uncle, Edward Webster, were Freemen of the Merchant Taylors' Company and Webster attended Merchant Taylors' School in Suffolk Lane, London.[2] On 1 August 1598, "John Webster, lately of the New Inn" was admitted to the Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court; in view of the legal interests evident in his dramatic work, this is possibly the playwright.[3] Webster married the 17-year-old Sara Peniall on 18 March 1606 at St Mary's Church, Islington.[4] A special licence had to be obtained to permit a wedding in Lent, which was necessary as at the date of their marriage, Sara was seven months pregnant. Their first child, John, was baptised at the parish of St Dunstan-in-the-West on 8 March 1605 or 1606. Bequests in the will of a neighbour who died in 1617, indicate that other children were born to him. Most of what is otherwise known of him relates to his theatrical activities. Webster was still writing plays as late as the mid-1620s, but Thomas Heywood's Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels (licensed 7 November 1634) speaks of him in the past tense, implying he was then dead.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The text adopted is that of Dyce. It has been carefully collated with the copy of the first Quarto (1623) in the British Museum. But the printing of the Quarto is on the whole so carefully done and Dyoe srevision of it is so Judicious that, save in a few cases, I have not thought it worth while to notice textual questions.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Longman
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0582332036
• ISBN 13: 9780582332034
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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