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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.
1493–1498 Alfonso I Piccolomini, whose wife Giovanna is the title character in The Duchess of Malfi; 1499–1559 Alfonso II Piccolomini; 1559–1575 Cesare I Gonzaga; 1584–1630 Ferrante II Gonzaga; 1642–1656 Ottavio Piccolomini, created by Philip IV; 1656–1673 Enea Silvio Piccolomini
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]
It details the investigations into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead. The title is taken from a passage from John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi: "Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle; she died young," which is quoted by one of the characters in the novel.
Iyiola is the first black woman to play The Duchess in a major production. Her performance was met with praise from the British press, the Guardian's Michael Billington wrote, "Any production, however, pivots on the performance of the Duchess, and Iyiola – following a long line of distinguished RSC forebears including Peggy Ashcroft , Judi ...
The 1623 quarto of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi was "almost certainly" [5] set into type from a Crane transcript. None of Crane's Shakespearean manuscripts have survived, but Crane scripts of several other works are extant, in addition to the one for The Witch noted above.
The Skull Beneath The Skin is a 1982 detective novel by English writer P. D. James, featuring her female private detective Cordelia Gray.The novel is set in a reconstructed Victorian castle on the fictional Courcy Island on the Dorset coast and centers around actress Clarissa Lisle, who is to play John Webster's drama The Duchess of Malfi in the castle's restored theatre.
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.