The Duchess of Malfi is a gothic tale of forbidden love ... production of Webster's bloody revenge tragedy. With its morbid imagery, perverted desires and skulking intriguers, Webster's tragedy ...

The Duchess of Malfi contains a network of imagery related to light and darkness ... His incestuous, misogynous impulses force him to deploy dark means to achieve even darker ends.

The evils of greed and ambition overwhelm love, innocence, and the bonds of kinship in this dark tragedy concerning the secret marriage of a noblewoman and a commoner. John Webster’s great ...

They make a decent stab at it. And if you’re familiar with John Webster’s Jacobean tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, you’ll know that it’s all about the stabbing. Widowed, the beautiful young ...

In John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi," the title character's defiantly ... even if Izzy Einsidler's lighting sometimes overly floods this dark tragedy in harsh light.) Webster's text is spoken ...

Crimson fabric shrouds every inch of the set, even the floor, at the start of the new Off-Broadway production of “The Duchess of Malfi ... s mouth. This dark “Duchess” isn’t that ...

THE DUCHESS OF MALFI by John Webster, directed by Peter Hinton (Stratford). Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford. Runs in rep to September 23. $81.65-$106.95. 1-800-567-1600. See Out of Town ...

A proud, sexually confident woman is destroyed by controlling men in John Webster’s horrifying Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi ... of its subtlety and dark magic in this production ...

Whittaker exudes battered nobility as she declares Webster’s famous line: “I am the Duchess of Malfi still.” Later, in an extrapolation of the scene where Antonio hears her voice echoing his ...

Despite the beauty of the poetry and the intense Jacobean floridness of the imagery, The Duchess of Malfi is an incredibly modern play. It’s not just the orgy of killing at the end, resembling ...

Boil down the plots and they sound like something Joey Tribbiani would star in: in this one, the Duchess’s evil twin ... plunged into darkness – ‘Malfi’ was designed for a theatre exactly ...