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The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy written by English dramatist John Webster in 1612–1613. [1] It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre , then later to a larger audience at The Globe , in 1613–1614.
Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi (1478–1510) was an Italian aristocrat, regent of the Duchy of Amalfi during the minority of her son from 1498 until 1510. Her tragic life inspired several works of literature, most notably John Webster 's play, The Duchess of Malfi .
John Webster (c. 1578 – c. 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. [1]
Antonio Beccadelli of Bologna (c.1475-1513) was an Italian aristocrat, whose tragic love affair and secret marriage with Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, inspired several works of literature, most notably John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Lope de Vega's El mayordomo de la Duquesa Amalfi.
It details the investigations into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead. The title is taken from a passage from John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi: "Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle; she died young," which is quoted by one of the characters in the novel.
Her television debut in 1938 was in a BBC production of The Duchess of Malfi. Her last appearance in 1973 was in the Play for Today installment Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont . Personal life
An early production was the successful The Duchess of Malfi (1982–84), at the Edinburgh Festival and then on tour, which used a 1950s setting and referenced films. [10] This was followed by a "disastrous" version of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four with students of the University of Surrey. [10]
The Duchess of Malfi is an adaptation by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of the English seventeenth-century tragedy of the same name by John Webster. [1] He collaborated with H. R. Hays and Anglo-American poet, W. H. Auden. [2] It was written during Brecht's period of exile in the United States. [2] In premiered in New ...