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Rewriting the ‘Duchess of Malfi’ [PDF]

open access: yesSCENARIO: Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, 2011
This article addresses issues of text adaptation in full-scale ESL drama production. After choosing to present Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, participants in the English Drama Workshop at Padua University set about the task of adapting the play in order
Dalziel, Fiona   +2 more
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The Wooing Principle in The Duchess of Malfi

open access: yesComparative Literature: East & West, 2014
(2014). The Wooing Principle in The Duchess of Malfi. Comparative Literature: East & West: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 105-116.
Huanguang XU
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Incomprehensible Concepts and Contexts: Teaching The Duchess of Malfi in Bhutan

open access: yesRadical Teacher, 2023
Teaching a Jacobean British text such as The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster to the Bhutanese students was a real challenge as the text deals with a world of class and gender hierarchy.
Babu Shankar Rao Kuruvella
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John Webster’s Drama “The Duchess Of Malfi”: The Contexts and Contests of Wit [PDF]

open access: yesRespectus Philologicus, 2014
The paper examines wit as a major, informing and thematically important literary element that enables the readers to penetrate into the deeper realms of imagination and interpretation. The meaning of the term ‘wit’ has changed a lot during the years both
Jurgita Astrauskienė   +1 more
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Le baroque dépravé dans La Duchesse d’Amalfi de John Webster

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2006
In The Duchess of Malfi, baroque art appears an art of evil that Webster attempts to deconstruct. The baroque theatricality that serves to torture the Duchess and to put her to death is shown as depraved.
Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille
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‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’: A Review of The Duchess of Malfi, directed by Maria Aberg, The Royal Shakespeare Company (Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon, 2018)

open access: yesSillages Critiques, 2019
A Review of a performance of The Duchess of Malfi, directed by Maria Aberg for the Royal Shakespeare Company (Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon, 10 July 2018)
Jyotsna G. Singh
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I am Ìyálóde of tì still: A Yoruba Duchess of Malfi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article examines Débò Olúwatûmínú's Ìyálóde of tì (An Original Adaptation of The Duchess of Malfi By John Webster), produced by Utopia Theatre in Leeds, Sheffield and Doncaster in autumn 2016.
Hopkins, Lisa
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Performing Relevance/ Relevant Performances: Shakespeare, Jonson, Hitchcock [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Engages with questions of historicism and presentism in the modern performance of early modern drama, and compares Ben Jonson with Alfred ...
Emma Smith
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La matière des images dans The Duchess of Malfi

open access: yesSillages Critiques, 2019
The present paper explores the various types of painters and artists mentioned by John Webster in The Duchess of Malfi. Much like the poisoned portrait in The White Devil, some of the painted and sculpted images that appear in The Duchess of Malfi seem ...
Anne-Valérie Dulac
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