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The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy written by English dramatist John Webster in 1612–1613. [1] It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre , then later to a larger audience at The Globe , in 1613–1614.
The Duchess of Malfi is an adaptation by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of the English seventeenth-century tragedy of the same name by John Webster. [1] He collaborated with H. R. Hays and Anglo-American poet, W. H. Auden. [2] It was written during Brecht's period of exile in the United States. [2] In premiered in New ...
The Duchess of Malfi is an opera in three acts by the British composer Stephen Oliver, based on the eponymous play by John Webster.Oliver originally wrote this opera, his ninth in 1971, at age 21, for a production at the Oxford Playhouse on commission from the Oxford University Opera Club. [1]
Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi (1478–1510) was an Italian aristocrat, regent of the Duchy of Amalfi during the minority of her son from 1498 until 1510. Her tragic life inspired several works of literature, most notably John Webster 's play, The Duchess of Malfi .
Harris’ The Duchess (of Malfi), an adaptation of John Webster’s Duchess of Malfi, opened at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in 2019. [21] In 2020, she adapted The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith for a new musical, which was set to premiere in 2021 at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. It would instead premiere on 12 July 2022.
Simon published the first edition of an anonymous English translation of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido , and John published the second edition . [2] One of John Waterson's earliest publications was also one of his most notable: the first quarto of Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (1623), printed by Nicholas Okes. [3]
The Duchess of Malfi - an opera lasting approximately 72 minutes. It was commissioned by English Opera Opera. It was commissioned by English Opera Opera. It received its premiere at Great Eastern Quay, London, UK and was a co-production between ENO and Punchdrunk.
John Webster (c. 1578 – c. 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. [1]