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The Duchess of Malfi, the White Devil, the Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

The Duchess of Malfi, the White Devil, the Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Webster, John
Ford, John
Kingsley-Smith, Jane

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ISBN10: 0141392231
ISBN13: 9780141392233
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Sep 29 2015
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
A new volume of the greatest revenge tragedies of the seventeenth-century stage

These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new directions. In The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, John Webster explores power, sex, and corruption in the Italian court, creating two unforgettable anti-heroines. In The Broken Heart, John Ford questions the value of emotional repression as his characters attempt to subdue their desires and hatreds in ancient Greece. Finally, Ford's masterpiece 'Tis Pity She's a Whore explores the taboo themes of incest and forbidden love in a daring reworking of Romeo and Juliet.

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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