The White Devil by John Webster (English) Paperback Book

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This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, while its lively introduction explains why Webster's interests in complex female lead characters and questions of social tension related to sexuality, gender, race, and law and equity – unusual for the play's time – have led to its increasing relevance for modern audiences and readers. Exploring the challenges of staging this highly melodramatic play, Lara Bovilsky guides you through the most interesting points of its rich performance history, and explores the onslaught of recent productions with race-conscious and regendered casts. Analysing its masterful poetry, she shows how the work can be harnessed to engage debate about the abuse of political and religious authority, the troubling fruits of economic desperation, and personal freedom, and empowers you to do likewise.Supplemented by a plot summary, annotated bibliography, production images, and essential contextual grounding in the court scandals that inspired Webster's tragedy and Webster's unusual composition practices, this edition is the most enlightening and engaging you will find.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Author Biography

Lara Bovilsky is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon, USA. She is the author of Barbarous Play: Race on the English Renaissance Stage (2008) and of articles published in ELH, Renaissance Drama, and elsewhere that explore early modern English understandings of gender, sexuality, class, nation and race.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPrefacePlot SummaryAnalysis1. Performance Aspects of The White Devil2. Author3. Critical Interpretations4. Dates and SourcesResources and Annotated BibliographyA Note on the TextThe Play

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The White Devil depicts the murderous results of an adulterous liaison against the backdrop of Renaissance Italy imagined as dominated by court and Papal intrigue, sorcery and poison, and families driven by ambition and revenge. This newly revised edition, edited by Lara Bovilsky, focuses on power, gender, race and law, and enables you to bring your own interpretation to the text.

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The White Devil depicts the murderous results of an adulterous liaison against the backdrop of Renaissance Italy imagined as dominated by court and Papal intrigue, sorcery and poison, and families driven by ambition and revenge. This newly revised edition, edited by Lara Bovilsky, focuses on power, gender, race and law, and enables you to bring your own interpretation to the text.

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Newly edited to meet the needs of students with focus on power, gender, race and law

Details ISBN1350059943 Author Lara Bovilsky Series New Mermaids Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1350059943 ISBN-13 9781350059948 Format Paperback Imprint Methuen Drama DEWEY 822.3 Pages 224 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 5 bw illus NZ Release Date 2021-08-12 UK Release Date 2021-08-12 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Publication Date 2021-08-12 Edited by Lara Bovilsky Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2021-10-06 We've got this

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