The Duchess of Malfi contains a network of imagery related to light and darkness In The Terrors of the Night, the writer Thomas Nashe tells us that the "night is the devil's black book ...

The Duchess of Malfi fared better when performed by Shakespeare's company "privately at the Blackfriars, and publicly at the Globe". The composition of the play seems to have been interrupted by ...

The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster’s complex 1613 heroine, is a meaty and testing role for her comeback. But happily – if ...

The widowed Duchess of Malfi longs to marry her lover, the steward Antonio. But her rancorous brothers, Ferdinand and the Cardinal, are implacably opposed to the match. When their spy, Bosola ...

Despite its interpretation of the play not hitting the mark in every aspect, this is an entertaining, diligently produced version of the Duchess of Malfi, which would make for an engaging entry ...