The Duchess is glad to be rid of her boring husband, embraces her sexual freedom and laughs in her brothers’ faces when they attempt to rein her in, a reaction that infuriates their sense of ...

Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) takes on the role of a lifetime in Zinnie Harris’ acclaimed contemporary adaptation of The Duchess of Malfi, playing at the Trafalgar Theatre for 11 ...

This adaptation of ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ by Zinnie Harris, starring Jodie Whittaker, has been criticised by many, and did not live up to many people’s expectations. Filled with innuendos ...

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 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 ...

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 ...