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Le théâtre baroque du corps démembré dans The Duchess of Malfi

Sillages Critiques, 2019
The Duchess of Malfi teems with images of dismembered bodies which form the basis of Webster’s specific macabre poetics. The play is haunted by body parts, at the levels of both plot and imagery.
Line Cottegnies
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The Duchess of Malfi and El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi revisited: some differences in literary convention and cultural horizon

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1999
From the large bulk of national English and Spanish drama, those plays which happen to coincide in dealing with the same subject offer themselves as a privileged domain where a fruitful contrastive analysis can be carried out with a view to eliciting the
García García, Luciano
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A Darker Shade of Pale: Webster’s Winter Whiteness

E-REA, 2015
This essay explores the politics of the colour scheme in John Webster’s tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi. On the face of it, we are offered a clear and absolute opposition between black and white in which black, predictably, is bad, and
Annaliese CONNOLLY, Lisa HOPKINS
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Spartan Daily, November 5, 1946 [PDF]

, 1946
Volume 35, Issue 24https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/3810/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Spartan Daily, October 8, 1946 [PDF]

, 1946
Volume 35, Issue 4https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/3790/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Why Ganymede Faints and the Duke of York Weeps: Passion Plays in Shakespeare [PDF]

, 2017
This article revisits contemporary critical debates surrounding the presence of cross-dressed boys as women on the early modern stage – in particular the question of whether or to what extent boy-actors could or should be said to represent ‘women’ or ...
Sujata Iyengar
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An Italian Werewolf in London: Lycanthropy and The Duchess of Malfi [PDF]

, 2005
In an England where wolves were effectively extinct - except for a few tired specimens kept for the occasional Royal viewing in the Tower Menagerie - and where reports of werewolves had to be imported from the Continent, John Webster penned the ...
Hirsch, BD
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Perspectives of Madness in Twelfth Night [PDF]

, 1997
Shakespeare uses such words as 'mad' and 'madness' more often in Twelfth Night than in any of his other plays, so it is a reasonable assumption that he was interested in madness when he wrote it, and that this play will give us an idea of what he means ...
Daalder, Joost
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Spartan Daily, September 30, 1946 [PDF]

, 1946
Volume 35, Issue 1https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/3787/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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The Duchess of Malfi de John Webster : la feinte mortifère

Etudes Epistémè
Feigning refers to the manipulation of appearances, but the Latin etymology of the word, fingere, also denotes a process of creation through inventing and shaping forms. Feigning can therefore be construed as the metonymy of art – in the present case, of
Laetitia Coussement-Boillot
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