Author: Robert Patrick GriffinPublisher: Salzburg : Inst. f. Eng. Sprache u. Literatur, Univ. Salzburg
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
John Webster: Politics and Tragedy
Author: Robert Patrick GriffinPublisher: Salzburg : Inst. f. Eng. Sprache u. Literatur, Univ. Salzburg
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Between Worlds
Author: Dena GoldbergPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889208050
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
“Webster’s iconoclasm was not the lonely experience of an alienated intellectual, but part of his generation’s struggle to create the future. As such, the critical energy we find in the plays was sustained, not by ideological certainty, but rather by interaction with the great complexity of thought and action—much of it negative—that constitutes a pre-revolutionary movement. If Webster was part of a dying culture, he was also—and it is this that Webster criticism has almost consistently ignored—a member of the generation that prepared the way for the revolution of 1640” (Introduction). Through detailed analysis of four plays, The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, The Devil’s Law Case, and Appius and Virginia, Goldberg explores the relations between Webster and aspects of Jacobean social and intellectual history. Webster’s satire of princes and prelates, his iconoclastic view of traditional philosophy, his trenchant analysis of institutions are seen as part of an intellectual movement that was undermining faith in the old order. Special attention is given to Webster’s theatrical representations of legal practice and legal philosophy as key manifestations of the realities of political power. Webster’s dramatizations of the judgment situation are shown to embody specific commentary on the legal system of his time, commentary that ranges in orientation from anarchist to reformist to revolutionary. Webster’s irreverence for traditional ideals and institutions combines with a humanist sense of man’s—and woman’s—potential to make an important contribution to the pre–revolutionary movement.
Satire in Jacobean Tragedy
Author: Joseph Henry StodderPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Tragedy and the Jacobean Temper: the Major Plays of John Webster
Author: Richard A. BodtkePublisher:
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Category : Tragedy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Deception in the John Webster Plays
Author: William E. MahaneyPublisher:
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Category : Deception in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Jacobean Drama as Social Criticism
Author: James HoggPublisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This collection of essays looks at the social criticism of such authors as Middleton, Webster, Massinger, Ford, John Fletcher, as well as considering the activities of the Actors' Companies and the production of Latin plays. Political criticism is found in the form of allusion in the tragedies, while the comedies are seen as mocking the shortcomings of the professional, middle and lower classes, some of the satire being directed against the way of speaking of the characters depicted.
The Structure of John Webster's Plays
Author: Anthony E. CourtadePublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Moral Perspectives in Webster's Major Tragedies
Author: Joseph Henry StodderPublisher:
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Category : Didactic drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Women in Power in the Early Modern Drama
Author: Theodora A. JankowskiPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062384
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A Study of John Webster's Use of Renaissance Natural and Moral Philosophy
Author: William W. G. DwyerPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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