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Elegy, prophecy, and politics: literary responses to the death of Prince Henry Stuart, 1612-1614 [PDF]
, 2017 This article examines literary responses to the death of Prince Henry Stuart. These texts were written by figures from across the religious and political spectrum.
Streete, Adrian
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Sillages Critiques, 2019 This article explores the meaning and the functions of objects, notably domestic objects, in The Duchess of Malfi. It focuses on the ways in which they serve a purpose of self-fashioning.
Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
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Glass Bellies and Artificial Wombs: Gender, Science, and Reproduction in Early Modern Alchemical Performance [PDF]
, 2017 In this essay, I use the glass belly or vessel as a framework for examining the intersection of science, performance, and gender in the early modern period. I begin with the example of the glass belly because of how its form and functions intersect these
Jennifer Park
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Dangerous Conversations in The Duchess of Malfi
Sillages Critiques, 2019 The proposition of this essay is that conversation exists as a theme in its own right in The Duchess of Malfi. It is clear that Webster borrowed from The Civil Conversation (1586), as Steffano Guazzo’s book was known in English translation. As in Guazzo,
John Gillies
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Sillages Critiques, 2019 A Conversation between Line Cottegnies, Guillaume Séverac-Schmitz, director and head of the company Eudaimonia, and Clément Camar-Mercier, translator and dramaturg, about the production of The Duchess of Malfi, which opens at the Cratère Scène nationale (
Line Cottegnies +2 more
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La Duchesse d’Amalfi et la Querelle des femmes
Sillages Critiques, 2019 In The Duchess of Malfi, in which Linda Woodbridge and Christy Desmet have identified the influence of the Woman controversy, Webster replicates the epideictic model of early modern debates on the subject of woman between misogynists and philogynists ...
Anny Crunelle Vanrigh
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Introduction to special issue on Webster [PDF]
, 2018 John Webster’s Theater of (Dis)obedience and Damnation: A collection of essays exploring the forms and functions of violence, evil, and social realities in Webster's ...
Carson Bergstrom +7 more
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Sillages Critiques, 2019 Professor Gisele Venet talks to director Cecilia Dorland and actors Jack Christie and Pip Brignall about the production of The Duchess of Malfi at St Giles in the Field, London, by Scena Mundi Theatre Company (Spring 2017). The conversation took place on
Cecilia Dorland +3 more
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Le fait divers sanglant sur la scène tragique : rendre le hasard vraisemblable ?
Etudes Epistémè, 2020 Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (1613) is a relevant play to reflect on the representation of contingency in fictions inspired by news items: contingency plays an important part in the plot and many unexpected or surprising facts help pin down its ...
Zoé Schweitzer
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Feminine Endings in The Duchess of Malfi
Sillages Critiques, 2019 This article takes as its starting point a convention in prosody that stylistically pushes the feminine and femininity to the margin of the poetic line and excludes them from the metrical norm. Extending that principle to the play, it offers a reflection
Ladan Niayesh
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