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The Complete Text, with Notes and Commentary
by Dr. Larry A. Brown, professor of theater, Nashville, TN, USA
These pages are dedicated to one of the greatest achievements of English Renaissance drama, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. Here you will find the complete text of the play, with links in each scene to notes and commentary.
In researching for notes, several editions of the play were consulted, including those edited by John Russell Brown, Jonathan Dollimore, Dennis Huston, F. L. Lucas, and Trevor Millum. The most recent edition used was David Gunby's thoroughly annotated The Works of John Webster (Cambridge, 1995). The production history by Kathleen McLuskie and Jennifer Uglow (Plays in Performance series, Bristol Classical Press, 1989) was also helpful.
Table of contents
You may find the complete play without links to the notes here. For an introduction to Tragedy, see my Aristotle
and Greek Tragedy and Tragedy
after Aristotle. Photos are from a 1998
production at David Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN directed by Larry Brown
(Laura Brewer as the Duchess, Jason Miller as Bosola, Wes Driver as Ferdinand,
Andrew Talbert as the Cardinal, Chris Hughes as Antonio, Rachel Holman as Julia,
Duff Harris as Death). “Webster
was much possessed by death and saw the skull beneath the skin.” -- T. S.
Eliot
Please email comments to: larry.brown@lipscomb.edu
See my home
page for other academic studies of
King Lear
Ovid's Metamorphoses
the Hindu epic Mahabharata
Wagner's The Ring
of the Nibelung
Stephen Sondheim
since December 2000
Latest revision: January 27, 2003
Winner of the Swan Award 2003 given by Internet Shakespeare Editions
How to cite this page for use in a paper or electronic report:
Brown, Larry A. The Duchess of Malfi. http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Malfi/malfi_home.htm (today’s date)
