The White Devil (Study Texts S.) - Softcover

Webster, Revd Prof. John

 
9780582331884: The White Devil (Study Texts S.)

Synopsis

Webster's other masterpiece of Jacobean tragedy.

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Review

John Webster's Charnel house tale... a Jacobean masterpiece... the characters of this flamboyant 17th-century tragedy of wild justice would be entirely recognisable to us today from kiss and tell tabloid stories. --Guardian

About the Author

Simon Trussler is co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly and the author or editor of numerous books on drama and theatre, including The Faber Pocket Guide to Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Shakespearean Concepts (1989), the award-winning Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre (1993) and Will's Will (2007). He was editor of the RSC Yearbook from 1978 to1985, edited and introduced fourteen volumes in the 'SwanTheatre Plays' series (Methuen, 1986-89), and is typo graphical consultant for the 'Shakespeare Folios' series, in which eighteen titles have so far appeared. He was formerly Reader in Drama in the University of London and Senior Research Fellow at Rose Bruford College, where he is now Professor Emeritus..

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