The Duchess of Malfi

by John Webster

Overview

New Mermaids are modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of important Engish plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the plav.

New Mermaids include plays by Beaumont, Behn, Boucicault, Chapman, Congreve, Dekker, Dryden, Etherege, Farquhar, Ford, Goldsmith, Hevwood, Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe, Marston, Massinger, Middleton, Peele, Rowley, Sheridan, Synge, Tourneur, Vanbrugh, Webster, Wilde, and Wvcherley.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987576269
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	04/06/2018
Pages:	82
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

Karen Britland is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her research interests include early modern drama, the Stuart court, and women's writing. She has edited plays by Elizabeth Cary, John Marston, and James Shirley, and was an associate editor for the Cambridge Complete Works of Ben Jonson edition between 2000 and 2012.

Table of Contents

Using this guide 2

Synopsis 4

Scene summaries and commentaries 6

Themes 35

Characters 41

Form, structure and language 54

Contexts 62

Working with the text 73

Meeting the Assessment Objectives 74

Top ten quotations 90

Taking it further 93