See also:JOHN See also:WEBSTER (fl. 1602-1624)
, See also:English dramatist, was a writer for the See also:stage in the See also:year 1602, when he had a See also:share in three plays noted by See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Henslow, and he published in 1624 the See also:city See also:pageant for that year, " invented and written by See also:John See also:Webster, See also:merchant-tailor." In the same year a tragedy by See also:Ford and Webster, A See also:late Murther of the Sonn upon the See also:Mother, was licensed for the stage; it is one of the numberless treasures now lost to us through the carelessness of See also:genius or the malignity of See also:chance
.
Beyond the See also:period included between these two See also:dates there are no traces to be found of his existence; nor is anything known of it with any certainty during that period, except that seven plays appeared with his name on the See also:title See also:page, three of them only the See also:work of his unassisted See also:hand
.
He was the author of certain additions to See also:Marston's tragi-See also:comedy of The Malcontent (1604); these probably do not extend beyond the See also:induction, a curious and vivacious prelude to a powerful and irregular work of somewhat morbid and sardonic genius
.
Three years later, in 1607, two comedies and a tragedy, " written by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Dekker and John Webster," were given to the See also:press
.
The comedies are lively and humorous, full of See also:movement and incident; but the beautiful interlude of See also:poetry which distinguishes the second See also:scene of the See also:fourth See also:act of Westward Ho! is unmistakably and unquestionably the work of Dekker; while the See also:companion comedy of Northward Ho! is composed throughout of homespun and coarse-grained See also:prose
.
The Famous See also:History of See also:Sir Thomas See also:Wyatt is apparently a most awkward and injurious abridgment of an See also:historical See also:play in two parts on a pathetic but undramatic subject, the See also:fate of See also:Lady Jane See also:Grey
.
In this lost play of Lady Jane (noted by Henslow in 1602) See also:Heywood, Dekker, See also:Chettle and See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith had also taken See also:part; so that even in its See also:original See also:form it can hardly have been other than a rough piece of patchwork
.
There are some touches of See also:simple eloquence and See also:rude dramatic ability in the mangled and corrupt See also:residue which is all that survives of it; but on the whole this " history " is crude, meagre, and unimpressive
.
In 1612 John Webster stood revealed to the then somewhat narrow See also:world of readers as a tragic poet and dramatist of the very foremost See also:rank in the very highest class
.
The See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Devil, also known as See also:Vittoria Corombona,l is a tragedy based on events then comparatively See also:recent—on a See also:chronicle of See also:crime and retribution in which the leading circumstances were altered and adapted with the most delicate See also:art and the most consummate See also:judgment from the incompleteness of incomposite reality to the requisites of the stage of See also:Shakespeare
.
By him alone among English poets have the finest scenes and passages of this tragedy been ever surpassed or equalled in the crowning qualities of tragic or dramatic poetry—in pathos and See also:passion, in subtlety and strength, in harmonious variety of art and infallible fidelity to nature
.
Eleven years had elapsed when the twin masterpiece of its author—if not indeed a still greater or more See also:absolute masterpiece—was published by the poet who had given it to the stage seven years before
.
The Duchess of Malfy 2 (an Anglicized version of See also:Amalfi, corresponding to such designations as See also:Florence, See also:Venice and See also:Naples) was probably brought on the stage about the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:death of Shakespeare; it was first printed in the memorable year which witnessed the first publication of his collected plays
.
This tragedy stands out among its compeers as one of the imperishable and ineradicable See also:land-marks of literature
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All the See also:great qualities apparent in The White Devil reappear in The Duchess of Malfy, combined with a yet more perfect See also:execution, and utilized with a yet more consummate
I The White Divel; or, The Tragedy of Paulo See also:Giordano Ursini, See also:Duke of Brachiano, with the See also:Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous Venetian Curtizan (1612)
.
Other See also:editions, with varying title-pages, 1631, 1665, 1672
.
2 The Dutchess of Malfey, A Tragedy
.
As it was approvedly well acted at Blackfriers
.
.
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(1623)
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The See also:plot is taken from a novel by See also:Bandello, and is also the subject of a tragedy by Lope de See also:Vega, El See also:Mayor Domo de la duquessa d'Amalfi
.
skill
.
No poet has ever so See also:long and so successfully sustained at their utmost height and intensity the expressed emotions and the See also:united effects of terror and pity
.
The transcendent See also:imagination and the impassioned sympathy which inspire this most tragic of all tragedies See also:save See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Lear are fused together in the fourth act into a creation which has hardly been excelled for unflagging See also:energy of impression and of pathos in all the dramatic or poetic literature of the world
.
Its See also:wild and fearful sublimity of invention is not more exceptional than the exquisite See also:justice and tenderness and subtlety of its expression
.
Some of these executive merits may be found in an See also:ill-constructed and ill-conditioned tragi-comedy which was printed in the same year; but few readers will care to remember much more of The Devil's See also:Law See also:Case than the admirable scenes and passages which found favour in the unerring and untiring sight of Webster's first and final interpreter or commentator, See also:Charles See also:Lamb
.
See also:Thirty-one yearslater (1654) the See also:noble tragedy of Appius and See also:Virginia was given to the world—a work which would alone have sufficed to perpetuate the memory of its author among all competent lovers of English poetry at its best
.
Seven years afterwards an unprincipled and ignorant bookseller published, under the title of Two New Playes: viz
.
A Cure for a Cuckold: a Comedy
.
The Thracian Wonder, A Comical History
.
As it hath been several times acted with great See also:Applause, two plays of which he assigned the authorship to John Webster and See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Rowley
.
This attribution may or may not be accurate; the former play is a mixture of coarsely realistic See also:farce and gracefully romantic comedy
.
An See also:elegy on See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry, See also:prince of See also:Wales, and a few slight occasional verses, compose the See also:rest of Webster's remaining extant See also:works
.
[See also:Edward See also:Phillips, in his Theatrum poetarum, wrongly attributed to him a share in The Weakest goes to the See also:Wall
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The play of See also:Guise, mentioned by Webster himself in the introduction to The Devil's Law Case, is lost.]
Webster's claims to a See also:place among the See also:chief writers of his See also:country were ignored for upwards of two centuries
.
In 183o the Rev
.
See also:Alexander See also:Dyce first collected and edited the works of a poet who had found his first adequate recognition twenty-two years earlier at the pious and fortunate hands of Lamb
.
But we cannot imagine that a presentiment or even a fore-knowledge of this long delay in the See also:payment of a See also:debt so long due from his countrymen to the memory of so great a poet would seriously have disturbed or distressed the mind of the See also:man who has given us the See also:clue to his nature in a single and an imperishable See also:sentence—" I rest silent in my own work." (A
.
C
.
S.)
See The Works of John Webster; with some See also:Account of the Author and Notes, by Alexander Dyce (new ed., 1857) ; The Dramatic Works of John Webster, edited by William See also:Hazlitt the younger (1857); The Best Plays of Webster and See also:Tourneur, edited by J
.
A
.
See also:Symonds for the " Mermaid " See also:series (1888—1903) ; Love's See also:Graduate
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(See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, 1885), in which Webster's supposed share in A Cure for a Cuckold is presented separately by S
.
See also:Spring-See also:Rice, with an introduction by See also:Edmund See also:Gosse
.
See also E
.
Gosse, Seventeenth-See also:Century Studies (1883); and especially an exhaustive See also:treatise by E
.
E
.
Stoll, John Webster, The Periods of his Work as determined by his Relations to the See also:Drama of his See also:Day (See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, 1905)
.
Mr Stoll's account (see p
.
42) shows that the additional See also:biographical suggestions made by Mr See also:Sidney See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee in his See also:article in the Dict
.
Nat
.
Biog. are not supported
.
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