The White Devil Paperback / softback
by John Webster
Edited by Lara (University of Oregon, USA) Bovilsky
Part of the New Mermaids series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, 5 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:12/08/2021
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- ISBN:9781350059948
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, 5 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:12/08/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350059948
