Poem of the Day: ‘The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi’
John Webster was, as T.S. Eliot put it, one of the few authors who saw “the skull beneath the skin.’
John Webster (c. 1578–c. 1632) was best known in his Jacobean time for his comedies and his many play-writing collaborations with the likes of Michael Drayton, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, John Ford, John Fletcher, Phillip Massinger, and Thomas Heywood — a compendium of the almost major playwrights of the era.
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