Notes on Drama:

The White Devil (Sources)

Contents:

Introduction
Author Biography
Plot Summary
Characters
Themes
Style
Historical Context
Critical Overview
Criticism
Further Reading


Sources

Aughterson, Kate, Webster: The Tragedies, Palgrave, 2001.

Behling, Laura L., "'S/he Scandles Our Proceedings': The Anxiety of Alternative Sexualities in The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi," in English Language Notes, Vol. 33, No. 4, June 1996, pp. 24 – 43.

Bogard, Travis, "An Interpretation of The White Devil," in Shakespeare's Contemporaries, edited by Max Bluestone and Norman Rabkin, Prentice-Hall, 1970, p. 272; originally published in The Tragic Satire of John Webster, University of California Press, 1955, pp. 119 – 28.

Brown, John Russell, "Introduction," in The White Devil, Manchester University Press, 1996, pp. 1 – 27.

Callaghan, Dympna, Women and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: A Study of "King Lear," "Othello," "The Duchess of Malfi," and "The White Devil," Humanities Press International, 1989, pp. 10, 140 – 47.

Dollimore, Jonathan, Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, University of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 231 – 46.

Gurewitsch, Matthew, "A Dark Fable Escapes Shakespeare's Shadow" in the New York Times, January 7, 2001, Sec. 2, Col. 1, p. 1.

Harmon, William, and C. Hugh Holman, A Handbook to Literature, Prentice Hall, 1999, p. 440.

Harrison, G. B., "Introduction," in Selected Plays, by John Webster and John Ford, E. P. Dutton, 1974, p. x.

Moore, Don D., John Webster and His Critics, 1617 – 1964, Louisiana State University Press, 1966, pp. 97 – 100.

Ranald, Margaret Loftus, John Webster, Twayne Publishers, 1989, pp. 29 – 43.

Stevenson, Sheryl, "'As Differing as Two Adamants': Sexual Difference in The White Devil," in Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama, edited by Carole Levin and Karen Robertson, Edwin Mellen Press, 1991, pp. 159 – 74.

Webster, John, The White Devil, edited by John Russell Brown, Manchester University Press, 1996.

Wells, H. G., The Outline of History, Doubleday, 1971, pp. 660 – 61.

"THE MOST ESSENTIAL CHANGES THAT ELIOT MADE TO THE LINES HE ADAPTED FROM WHITE DEVIL WERE TO REPLACE WEBSTER'S 'WOLF' WITH 'DOG' AND WEBSTER'S 'FOE' WITH 'FRIEND' "


 
 
 

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