The Duchess of Malfi

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; D. Callaghan.- The Duchess of Malfi: Tyranny and Spectacle in Jacobean Drama; K. S. Coddon.- 'Neither Maid, Widow, nor Wife': Rhetoric of the Woman Controversy in The Duchess of Malfi; C. Desmet.- Death on Stage, Death of the Stage: The Antitheatricality of The Duchess of Malfi; A. Henderson.- Defining/Confining the Duchess: Negotiating the Female Body in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; T. A. Janowski.- Drama and Sexual Politics: The Case of Webster's Duchess; K. McLuskie.- The Heroics of Marriage in Renaissance Tragedy; M. B. Rose.- Dominance of the Typical and The Duchess of Malfi; S. Wells.- Sexual and Social Mobility in The Duchess of Malfi; F. Whigham.- The Moral Design of The Duchess of Malfi; R. S. White.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.