You are not currently logged in. Please create an account or log in to view the full course.
John Webster and the Duchess of Malfi
- Description
- Cite
- Share
About the lecture
In this module, we think about John Webster himself, about whom we know very little, and the historical context of the play. In particular, we think T. S. Eliot’s description of Webster as a man who “saw the skull beneath the skin”.
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.
Cite this Lecture
APA style
Lennard, J. (2018, August 15). Webster: The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster and the Duchess of Malfi [Video]. MASSOLIT. https://massolit.io/options/webster-the-duchess-of-malfi-269dffaf-4237-46e8-afbd-3be646374bb9?auth=0&lesson=887&option=7815&type=lesson
MLA style
Lennard, J. "Webster: The Duchess of Malfi – John Webster and the Duchess of Malfi." MASSOLIT, uploaded by MASSOLIT, 15 Aug 2018, https://massolit.io/options/webster-the-duchess-of-malfi-269dffaf-4237-46e8-afbd-3be646374bb9?auth=0&lesson=887&option=7815&type=lesson