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White Devil

White Devil

White Devil Paperback / softback - 2021

by John Webster

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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 sexu
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  • Title White Devil
  • Author John Webster
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Methuen Drama
  • Publication date 2021-08-12
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9781350059948_inp
  • ISBN 9781350059948 / 1350059943
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.72 x 5.04 x 0.63 in (19.61 x 12.80 x 1.60 cm)
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.3
  • Quantity available 1

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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.

About the author

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.
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