English Literature / Unit 8 ENL 0715 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Jacobean Tragedy: Webster
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The idea
John Webster, a Jacobean dramatist whose career overlapped Shakespeare's, is best known for The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, often seen as masterpieces of the early seventeenth-century stage. Jacobean tragedy is darker than Elizabethan, full of corruption and violent ends.
In practice
Two dark tragedies of corruption.
Where people slip
Jacobean means under James the First.
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