The Duchess of Malfi is a
macabre, tragic play which is often performed and studied at A
level
and university. This Arden edition brings all the scholarship
and
comprehensive analysis associated with the series and offers
readers a
deeper understanding of the play than competing editions.
Leah Marcus is the Edwin Mims Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
'I found it more exciting than I should probably admit to at seeing
the Shakespeare-rich layer of annotation underpinning the text on
the page of a play - The Duchess of Malfi - that simply hasn't been
treated in that way before, especially in terms of introductory
matter.'
*Shakespeare Bookshop Newsletter (December 2009)*
‘Fascinating reading'
*Times Literary Supplement, June 2010, on the Arden Early Modern
Drama series*
'Webster took tragedy to a new level in the psychology of evil,
actual horror and callousness.'
*Michael Coveney, Independent, 21.10.10*
'Webster's language has a musical poetry second only to
Shakespeare's'
*John Peter, Sunday Times, 31.10.10*
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