John Webster

The Duchess of Malfi (Annotated) John Webster

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. John Webster (London, c. 1580 - id., 1633) was an English playwright from the time of James I, one of the foremost of his time. The data on the life of John Webster are still very uncertain. His family was humble (he was the son of a tailor) and lived in the London parish of the Holy Sepulcher, but John must have received a first-class education, if we are to judge by the great classical scholarship exhibited by his texts (especially in the field legal) and its jeweled style. In 1596 a certain Johannes Webster was admitted to the honorable Middle Temple society, so he must have legal knowledge or be a lawyer. He must have belonged to the company of the "Merchant Taylors" (even though he was not a tailor)and began working as a dramatic author in 1601 collaborating with Michael Drayton and Anthony Munday until the businessman Philip Henslowe noticed him and added him to the ingenuities that nurtured his theaters The Rose and The Fortune in 1602. Stabilized and his career, Webster He married Sara Peniall, who was only 17 years old, on March 18, 1606, when she was seven months pregnant. He would still have several more children from him.