It arises from real feeling’.įrank Wadsworth, ‘Webster’s Duchess of Malfi in the Light of some Contemporary Ideas on Marriage and Remarriage’, Philological Quarterly, 35 (1956) pp. Driscoll compares her with Christ and Socrates and claims that ‘the marriage of the Duchess to Antonio is a crowning act of personal integrity. Driscoll, ‘Integrity of Life in The Duchess of Malfï’, Drama Survey, 6 (1967) pp. Probably the most unqualified applause for the Duchess comes in James P. 81, refers to as the ‘whore-obsession’ of most Jacobean drama. Waage, ‘The White Devil’ Discover’d: Backgrounds and Foregrounds to Webster’s Tragedy (New York, 1984) p. 148, 163, rightly calls the ‘willed family disruption’, the ‘deliberate perversion of values’ of the earlier Webster play or whatįrederic O.
199, that the ‘affective ideal’ of love and marriage is ‘glowingly defined’ here.Ĭontrast what Anders Dallby, The Anatomy of Evil: a Study of John Webster’s ‘The White Devil’, Lund Studies in English, 48 (1974) pp. See Catherine Belsey’s view, The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama (London and New York, 1985) p.
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