Webster: The Tragedies
The Tragedies
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Webster's plays are often seen as subordinate to those of his contemporary, William Shakespeare. This book shows students how Webster's dramas are equal to those of Shakespeare, through analysing both his dramatic and poetic skills. It focuses in particular on Webster's heroines and the tightly male-dominated world in which they are seen to struggle. Chapters on openings and endings, turning-points, theatricality and imagery, as well as characters, give the student analytical tools with which to approach the plays.
Webster's theatre was also Shakespeare's theatre: but their tragedies are very different. Webster has a reputation for angst-ridden, obsessive and debased characters and the creation of a sick and decaying world. Yet his heroines are the amongst the strongest characters, male or female, in Jacobean drama. This book shows how Webster's plays portray a world in which patriarchal, aristocratic politics are dissected as diseased. Through close analysis of key moments, scenic and dramatic structure, characterisation, theatricality and imagery, this book enables students to appreciate Webster's individual contribution to our dramatic heritage. Through such textual reading, we learn how he uses drama to debate contemporary political and social issues, most explicitly those of gender. The book provides students with effective reading, critical and analytical tools with which to approach Webster's plays as dramatic scripts for our time, as well as their own, and thus as rivals to Shakespeare's major tragedies.
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