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The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) [Paperback]

John Webster (Author), Ren�1/2 Weis (Editor)

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Series: Oxford World's Classics | Publication Date: October 22, 1998

John Webster was a radically and creatively experimental dramatist. This volume offers his two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil's Law-Case, and the comedy written with William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold. The texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation.

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Renï¿½ Weis is Senior Lecturer in English at University College, London.

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Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 22, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0192834533
ISBN-13: 978-0192834539
Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches
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