
The White Devil
John Webster(Author)
Lara Bovilsky(Editor)
Methuen Drama (Publisher)
Published on 12. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-350-05994-8 (ISBN)
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.
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Edition type
Annotated edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
5 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
192 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-05994-8 (9781350059948)
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Additional editions

John Webster | Lara Bovilsky
The White Devil
E-Book
07/2021
1st Edition
Methuen Drama
€12.99
Available for download

John Webster | Lara Bovilsky
The White Devil
E-Book
07/2021
1st Edition
Methuen Drama
€12.99
Available for download
Persons
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.
Content
Introduction
Preface
Plot Summary
Analysis
1. Performance Aspects of The White Devil
2. Author
3. Critical Interpretations
4. Dates and Sources
Resources and Annotated Bibliography
A Note on the Text
The Play
Preface
Plot Summary
Analysis
1. Performance Aspects of The White Devil
2. Author
3. Critical Interpretations
4. Dates and Sources
Resources and Annotated Bibliography
A Note on the Text
The Play