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	An Analysis of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi
		This is done in a hand-fast marriage witnessed by Cariola, the Duchess' hand-maiden.
		The pilgrims in Act 4 (when the Duchess and her family are in Loreto at the religous shrine) are the only disinterested parties in the play.
		Where the Duchess earlier likens herself to a diamond, Ferdinand is cut by her dust.
	virtual.park.uga.edu /~cdesmet/sabrin/7home.htm (553 words)

	Arbella Stuart, Catherine of Valois, and The Duchess of Malfi by Nanci Lamb Roider
		Arbella Stuart, Catherine of Valois, and The Duchess of Malfi:
		The Duchess of Malfi doubtless felt the pressures, both positive and negative, associated with widowhood, and there is evidence that she experienced some difficulty reconciling the two.
		The Duchess had already married for the "right" reasons, and, in her widowhood, sought to marry for love (dare we say even, lust) and companionship, while her brothers, for whom the traditional modes of marriage proved more convenient, held fast to the marriage practices of the past.
	www.triviumpublishing.com /articles/duchessofmalfi.html (5211 words)

	Tragic figures in "The Duchess of Malfi" -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		The Duchess of Malfi is a peculiar tragedy, ironic and given to anomaly in its structure.
		The Duchess is clearly a key figure in the play, she gives her name to it and the central tragedy of the first four acts is focused on her.
		The Duchess’ essential failing is that she is blinded by love to the dangers of her relationship, or perhaps given a false courage that makes her foolhardy in the face of her brother’s wrath.
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	The Duchess Malfi
		All the Duchess' major scenes are cut; her few other appearances (with one meaningless exception) are made as a fish in a tank.
		A steward who admires the Duchess from afar is suddenly sharing with his friend his worries about his secret marriage being exposed, and then complains about being separated from her and two of their three children.
		The Duchess may have to put up with her irrationally oppressive siblings; but Gonglewski must put up with semi-competent (and a few totally incompetent) supporting actors, and the challenge of compressing a play's worth of growth and experience into a single uninterrupted span of time.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~cmazer/malfirev.html (701 words)

	The Duchess Of Malfi Summary \| Buzznick.com
		The Duchess of Malfi - Character Summary - The Duchess of Malfi - Character Summary.
		The Duchess of Malfi (1613-4?) a tragedy by Webster.
		Webster's story of the Duchess of Malfi may be an Elizabethan tragedy, but it is also a...
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	The Sharp Side: The Meanings of 'The Duchess of Malfi'
		The Tragedy of The Duchess of Malfi was performed by the King’s Servants, who were one of the leading theatrical troupes of the period, and, of course, the one that Shakespeare was involved with.
		The echo scene in Act Five in which the Duchess speaks from her tomb almost certainly involved a piece of stage machinery used in an earlier play, in which a tomb flies open to reveal a woman in white surrounded by “a great light”.
		The Duchess of Malfi begins with a conversation between a courtier, Delio, and the steward of the Duchess’s household, Antonio.
	ellissharp.blogspot.com /2005/06/meanings-of-duchess-of-malfi.html (2151 words)

	John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Webster's story of the Duchess of Malfi may be an Elizabethan tragedy, but it is also a psychological horror story as well told as any modern novel in the genre.
		The Duchess inherits her realm as a widow, and is urged by her broothers Ferdinand Duke of Calabria and the Cardinal to marry again.
		Ferdinand eventually discovers the truth, and the duchess realises that he and the cardinal will not be willing for her land to descend to her children by Antonio.
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	The Duchess of Malfi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play, written by the English dramatist John Webster and first performed in 1614 at the Globe Theatre in London, and published for the first time in 1623.
		The Duke of Calabria, and twin brother of the Duchess.
		Antonio's elder son by the Duchess appears in the final scene, and takes his place as the heir to the Malfi fortune, despite his father's explicit wish that his son "fly the court of princes", a corrupt and increasingly deadly environment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Duchess_of_Malfi (1112 words)

	John Webster (1580? - 1635?) - author of The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi
		Webster creates a complex and compelling character who is simply not willing to abide those who stand in the way of her passion, and in the process, he creates one of the most exciting lovers' quarrels in all of dramatic literature.
		The widowed Duchess of Malfi is forbidden to marry again by her brothers--Duke Ferdinand and the Cardinal--because they covet her estate.
		The two lovers live happily for a time and the Duchess gives birth to three children, but when their marriage is discovered, the evil of the world stages a macabre dance around the little family from which there is no escape.
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	BBC - Leeds - Entertainment - Hello Duchess
		The story of a woman trying to live outside the social rules of her times is a dramatic one, and it certainly spins off into an orgy of violence but I found it curiously unmoving.
		The widowed Duchess, who defies the controlling influences of her brothers and their dark warnings, secretly marries the man she loves and the die is cast.
		The Duchess of Malfi is at the West Yorkshire Playhouse until Saturday 11 November 2006.
	www.bbc.co.uk /leeds/content/articles/2006/10/26/theatre_the_duchess_of_malfi_feature.shtml (381 words)

	The Duchess of Malfi
		The Duchess of Malfi was a historical character.
		By asserting that her brothers would not harm her in person, the Duchess was able to persuade Antonio to escape with their eldest child, a boy of 6 or 7 of age.
		There is no evidence to connect the Aragonian brothers with the death of the Duchess, but after being taken back to her palace in Amalfi, neither she, her two youngest children nor her waiting woman were ever seen again.
	www.anglo-iren.de /duchess/play2.htm (682 words)

	London Theatre Guide Duchess of Malfi 2003
		When the Duchess is tormented by the maddening wails of the local asylum inmates we do not have the bazaar spectacle of watching actors twist and gyrate their limbs like some mass contortionist act and listen to them attempt to screech like banshees.
		Instead the Duchess is drugged, tied to a chair and made to watch a movie of obscene images of mutilated bodies, including those of her husband and eldest son, whilst the asylum inmates sit and watch the movie in dumbstruck convulsions.
		Because Ferdinand is so low browed the social contrast between the Duchess and Antonio (her household steward whom she secretly marries) vanishes from the picture and so one is left with only incestuous jealousy as the reason for Ferdinand’s rage at news of his sister’s marriage.
	www.londontheatre.co.uk /londontheatre/reviews/duchessofmalfi03.htm (793 words)

	"Ears Prejudicate" in Mariam and Duchess of Malfi
		The duchess of Malfi also fails to listen appropriately and is punished because she refuses to listen to those in authority over her and listens instead to other men.
		The duchess may be punished because she listens too well to Antonio and Bosola and ignores the advice of her brothers, but after death she behaves as the ideal listening wife, echoing her husband's words as Cleaver advocates.
		Like the duchess who suffers the consequences of her brothers' refusal to hear her, the playwright is forced to accept the repercussions of his audience's inattention.
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		Duchess The birds that live i' the field On the wild benefit of nature live Happier than we; for they may choose their mates, And carol their sweet pleasures to the spring.
		Duchess That he so much distrusts my husband's love, He will by no means believe his heart is with him Until he see it: the devil is not cunning enough To circumvent us in riddles.
		Duchess There is not between heaven and earth one wish I stay for after this: it wastes me more Than were 't my picture, fashion'd out of wax, Stuck with a magical needle, and then buried In some foul dunghill; and yond's an excellent property For a tyrant, which I would account mercy.
	www.cs.utah.edu /~goller/books/WEBSTER/MALFI.NEW (20777 words)

	The Duchess Malfi
		At different points in the play, Webster presents (seemingly out of nowhere) a Masque of Madmen, a grotesque tableaux and a fatal case of mistaken identity of which he writes: 'Such a mistake as I have often seen in a play.' These are the kind of conventions Mr.
		Eliot is talking about and, other than the Duchess herself, the world of the play is a world of utter depravity wearing the mask of ordered, courtly society.
		Malfi's Duchess had achieved her infamy long before John Webster's play was first produced.(c.
	members.aol.com /bigmessthr/malfi.html (523 words)

	Fredericksburg.com - Kahn mars 'The Duchess of Malfi'
		The duchess of the title, a widow, is forbidden by her brothers, Ferdinand and the Cardinal, to marry again.
		The Duchess manages to send Antonio and their oldest son away to safety before she and her other two children are killed at her brothers' behest.
		In the end, the Duchess' surviving son by Antonio is proclaimed the heir of her estates.
	fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2002/022002/02072002/515375 (646 words)

	John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi. The principal characters and their roles
		The Duchess of Malfi is a revenge tragedy, but Webster has used the form for much more than just its entertainment value; he has used it as a vehicle for the exploration of some themes relevant to the society of his time.
		The fact that Antonio can never have an equal relationship with the Duchess has prompted some readers to feel that his importance as a character in the play is limited, while others suggest that his main role is as a mouthpiece for Webster's own judgements and opinions.
		The Duchess may have chosen Antonio for this very reason, as he is a good and honest man and not a sycophant of the court.
	www.literature-study-online.com /essays/webster.html (2344 words)

	The Duchess of Malfi Summary and Analysis Summary
		The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster John Webster was born in London around 1578, the son of a cart-maker.
		The Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play, written by the English dramatist John Webster and first performed in 1614 [1] at the Globe Theatre in London, and published for the first time in 1623.
		Analyzes the character of Bosola from 'The Duchess of Malfi' by John Webster.
	www.bookrags.com /The_Duchess_of_Malfi (616 words)

	Baltimore Sun's Review of The Duchess of Malfi
		The Duchess marries in secret the moment after her brothers lecture her not to, having set her eye on Antonio (Robert Tyree, who makes the character attractive, kind, innocent and bland).
		The Duchess and Antonio maintain a secret yet lovely marriage for several years despite the spying presence of a peevish soldier of fortune named Bosola, hired by Ferdinand to keep an eye on his sister.
		The Duchess, given a torrent of emotion by McGillis -- whose only flaw is an occasional English accent that's hard to explain -- seems aware of and repulsed by her brother's dilemma.
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	GradeSaver: E-Text of The Duchess of Malfi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DUCHESS: Sir, this goodly roof of yours, is too low built; I cannot stand upright in't nor discourse, Without I raise it higher; raise yourself; Or, if you please, my hand to help you: so.
		DUCHESS: Do not think of them: All discord without this circumference Is only to be pitied, and not fear'd: Yet, should they know it, time will easily Scatter the tempest.
		DUCHESS: Be not amaz'd, this woman's of my counsel: I have heard lawyers say, a contract in a chamber Per verba presenti is absolute marriage.
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	Duchess of Malfi Essays -- Inviting Destruction in Duchess of Malfi
		It has been asserted that, through her willfulness, the Duchess invites her own destruction. However the assertion has to be looked at from a 17th century point-of-view, as well as a modern one.
		The assertion is firmly rooted in the issue of human rights, and that issue has changed and evolved an enormous amount over the past few centuries, since Duchess of Malfi was written.
		She refuses to accept the rules of society, instead choosing her own path to follow?an unpredictable and dangerous path, as is eventually seen with her capture, torture and death at the hands of her own brothers.
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	The Duchess of Malfi, a CurtainUp London review
		The programme is illustrated with a photograph of Princess Diana, drawing the parallel of a woman whose infidelity to her husband, in Diana's case in life, rather than in widowhood, was politically unacceptable to the power brokers.
		The Duchess of Malfi, unlike Diana Spencer, gets no support from her brothers, one is a psychopath, the other a controlling and very freaky Cardinal, here mysteriously underplayed by Ray Stevenson.
		In a very powerful scene where the duchess is kept with lunatics, she is strapped in a chair while screams are howls are heard, frightful images are projected of blood and torture and children flying like one's worst nightmare.
	www.curtainup.com /duchessofmalfi2.html (895 words)

	English Literature - The Duchess of Malfi - Character Summary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Duchess is portrayed as the victim of entrapment, Ferdinand the
		and The Duchess of Malfi is by accentuating the presence of the
		Duchess and Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi.
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	Duchess of Malfi in Love
		The Duchess of Malfi is a character-driven, exciting play that may prove Webster to be the most modern of the Elizabethan playwrights.
		As opposed to Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi has the kind of action (stage movement) that would make the play visually interesting.
		Like Shakespeare's plays, and unlike Eliot's Cocktail Party, The Duchess of Malfi has enough interesting characters to make the play, at least as I have imagined it, seem to be a potential stage riot and a force from Actus Primus to Finis.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/teaching_theatre/59433 (470 words)

	The Duchess of Malfi Summary and Study Guide - John Webster
		Webster's The Duchess of Malfi was written in 1613 or 1614 and had at least two successful productions in London before it was published in 1623 under the title The Tragedy of the Duchesse of Malfy.
		Generally considered to be Webster's masterpiece, it tells the story of a young widow who marries against the wishes of her powerful brothers, setting off a storm of revenge.
		The startling violence, the unbelievable plot twists, the mysterious motives of the brothers, and the calm strength of the Duchess have made The Duchess of Malfi a subject for fierce debate for hundreds of years.
	www.enotes.com /duchess-malfi (381 words)

	Royal National Theatre - The Duchess of Malfi
		A clever critic might argue plausibly that Webster's masterpiece of the virtuous duchess tortured by her vicious brothers for marrying her steward was the opposite of life-affirming, its horror too baroque, its characterisation weak, its plot ungainly even for Jacobean tragedy.
		The Glasgow connection is honoured in the appearance of Laurance Rudic as the ever-present hooded Death, leading the deceased Duchess through the ruined abbey after helping her into her coffin; and in Jonathan Hyde's consistently lycanthropic Ferdinand (he was Prowse's Cardinal before), a creature whose disintegration is on the cards from his first entrance.
		It is the cowled, unsleeping figure of Death itself (Laurance Rudic) who haunts "The Duchess of Malfi", sitting by a wall, reading at a desk, welcoming the tormented Duchess (Eleanor Bron) with the promise of peace.
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	Review of The Duchess Of Malfi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cheek By Jowl have billed The Duchess Of Malfi as "a horror tragedy", but the horror evoked by Declan Donnellan's production is the gloomy but unfrightening kind typified by 1960s sinister-family movies in which Bette Davis always seemed to play the grandmother hidden from general view.
		To be sure, Anastasia Hille as the Duchess does a lot of Davis-style smoking onstage, and establishes herself as the strongest member of her family, with a fiercer will even than Paul Brennen's Herr Flick-like Cardinal.
		The madmen who torment the imprisoned Duchess do not gibber as scripted, but enact a mute masque of her downfall, as if Ferdinand had taken a leaf out of Prince Hamlet's book and instructed them to lay their own "Mousetrap"; if so, the mouse is not caught — Hille's Duchess shows no sign of recognition.
	www.cix.co.uk /~shutters/reviews/95032.htm (519 words)

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