07 | 2018
Time’s Up for The Duchess: Malfi in Conversation
This special issue of Arrêt sur scène / Scene Focus devoted to The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster partly grew out of the study days co-organised by the CAS (a research centre focusing on Anglo-Saxon Cultures, EA 801, University Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) and the IRCL (Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Age and the Enlightenment, UMR5186 CNRS) of University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 on 7 and 8 December 2018. The keynote speaker was Michael Neill, the editor of The Duchess of Malfi for Norton Critical Editions (2015). The texts published in this issue all refer to this edition.
Time’s Up for the Duchess: Malfi in Conversation brings together articles offering original, complementary critical approaches on key scenes of Webster’s play. The Jacobean playwright’s text notably engages in a dialogue with the political, religious and cultural context in which it was written, with other Renaissance texts, such as The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe, and with modern-day productions such as Dominic Dromgoole’s for the Shakespeare Globe’s indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2014. Successive focuses on individual scenes are also an occasion for intra-textual conversations which highlight the significance of the passages under study in the overall economy of the play.
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Webster’s Horse-Play [Full text]
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The Martyred Duchess [Full text]





