The White Devil

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Lara Bovilsky

Verlag:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: LPV4Z8V

EAN: 9781350059948

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 25.08.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 23.40

Beschreibung

This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, while its lively introduction explains why Webster's interests in complex female lead characters and questions of social tension related to sexuality, gender, race, and law and equity - unusual for the play's time - have led to its increasing relevance for modern audiences and readers. Exploring the challenges of staging this highly melodramatic play, Lara Bovilsky guides you through the most interesting points of its rich performance history, and explores the onslaught of recent productions with race-conscious and regendered casts. Analysing its masterful poetry, she shows how the work can be harnessed to engage debate about the abuse of political and religious authority, the troubling fruits of economic desperation, and personal freedom, and empowers you to do likewise. Supplemented by a plot summary, annotated bibliography, production images, and essential contextual grounding in the court scandals that inspired Webster's tragedy and Webster's unusual composition practices, this edition is the most enlightening and engaging you will find.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

John Webster
Lara Bovilsky

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Format

Buch (Softcover)

Anzahl Seiten