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About the lecture

In this module, we introduce the playwright John Webster, a part-time playwright who wrote his first plays only when he had already turned thirty, and the reception of his play ‘The White Devil’, which was most likely first performed in the period 1608-11.

About the lecturer

Born in Bristol, and educated at Oxford and St Louis, Dr John Lennard has taught English, American, and Commonwealth Literature in Cambridge, London, and Jamaica over more than twenty years. He has written two widely used textbooks (on poetry and drama) and monographs on Shakespeare, Paul Scott, Nabokov, and Faulkner, as well as two collections of essays on contemporary genre writers in crime, science fiction and fantasy, and romance. Enthusiastic, discursive, widely knowledgeable, and a demon for punctuation (on which he has also published extensively), he has been a popular Summer School Course Leader and lecturer for the Institute of Continuing Education since 1992.

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APA style

Lennard, J. (2018, August 15). The White Devil (1612) - John Webster [Video]. MASSOLIT. https://massolit.io/options/the-white-devil-1612?auth=0&lesson=511&option=9014&type=lesson

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Lennard, J. "The White Devil (1612) – John Webster." MASSOLIT, uploaded by MASSOLIT, 15 Aug 2018, https://massolit.io/options/the-white-devil-1612?auth=0&lesson=511&option=9014&type=lesson