Skull beneath the skin : the achievement of John Webster /
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Author / Creator: | Forker, Charles R. |
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Imprint: | Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1986. |
Description: | xiv, 612 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/777361 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. John Webster, Merchant Taylor and Citizen of London
- Part II. The Canon
- 1. The Early Career
- 2. Maturity
- 3. The Final Phase [i]
- 4. The Final Phase [ii]
- Part III. The Major Works
- 5. The Love-Death Nexus in English Renaissance Tragedy
- 6. The White Devil and the Aesthetics of Chaos
- 7. The Tragic Indeterminacy of the Duchess of Malfi
- 8. The Dark Affirmation of the Devil's Law-Case
- Part IV. The Posthumous Reputation
- Appendix: Webster's Influence on Seventeenth-Century English Drama
- Notes
- Index