Overview
- Contains close textual analysis of the two bestknown of Webster's plays: The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi
Leads the student on to further study of other Jacobean plays, by giving them the tools of analysis
Provides contextual information about Webster's life and work and a selection of critical views on the plays
Part of the book series: Analysing Texts (ANATX)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Analysing Webster’s Tragedies
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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The Context and the Critics
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book shows how Webster's plays portray a world in which patriarchal, aristocratic politics are dissected as diseased. Through close analysis of key moments, scenic and dramatic structure, characterisation, theatricality and imagery, this book enables students to appreciate Webster's individual contribution to our dramatic heritage. Through such textual reading, we learn how he uses drama to debate contemporary political and social issues, most explicitly those of gender. The book provides students with effective reading, critical and analytical tools with which to approach Webster's plays as dramatic scripts for our time, as well as their own, and thus as rivals to Shakespeare's major tragedies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Webster: The Tragedies
Book Subtitle: The Tragedies
Authors: Kate Aughterson
Series Title: Analysing Texts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-1914-4
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 266
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave