John Webster: The Critical Heritage (The Collected Critical Heritage : Jacobean Dramatists)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
WEBSTER on 'The White Devil', 1612......Page 36
WEBSTER'S view of 'The Duchess of Malfi', 1623......Page 38
The Dedication of 'The Devil's Law Case', 1623......Page 39
Three poems for 'The Duchess', 1623......Page 40
FITZJEFFREY'S portrait of Webster, 1617......Page 41
An Italian envoy comments on 'The Duchess', 1618......Page 42
ABRAHAM WRIGHT'S commonplace book, c. 1650......Page 43
Singular praise from Samuel Sheppard, 1651......Page 44
SAMUEL PEPYS on Webster, 1661, 1662, 1666, 1668, 1669......Page 46
LANGBAINE'S Webster, 1691......Page 47
On the failure of birth control in 'The Duchess of Malfi' and 'Henry VIII', 1698......Page 49
NAHUM TATE rewrites 'The White Devil', 1707......Page 50
LEWIS THEOBALD rewrites 'The Duchess of Malfi', 1733......Page 53
CHARLES LAMB: Webster reclaimed, 1808......Page 60
Reactions to Lamb, 1809......Page 62
NATHAN DRAKE ranks the Elizabethans, 1817......Page 63
'Blackwood's' reviews Webster, 1818......Page 64
CAMPBELL refutes Lamb, 1819......Page 67
HAZLITT on Webster, 1819, 1826......Page 68
LORD BYRON resists but reads, 1820, 1821......Page 73
SHELLEY'S tastes, c. 1820......Page 74
DYCE'S introduction to Webster, 1830......Page 75
GEORGE DARLEY writes of Webster, 1831......Page 79
A historian's Webster, 1839......Page 83
The student's Webster, 1848......Page 85
'The Duchess of Malfi' on stage, 1850......Page 86
Isabella Glyn tours as the Duchess, 1852  68......Page 97
'The Duchess' in the USA, 1857  9......Page 101
The Canon fires, 1856......Page 106
Webster on the American lecture circuit, 1859......Page 109
J.A.SYMONDS in the 'Cornhill Magazine', 1865......Page 111
WILLIAM MINTO on Webster as dramatist, 1874......Page 113
WARD'S 'History', 1875......Page 114
SWINBURNE on Webster, 1882, 1886......Page 119
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL lectures, 1887......Page 126
SAINTSBURY'S survey, 1887......Page 130
J.A.SYMONDS on Webster, 1888......Page 132
The typical Webster, 1892......Page 136
ARCHER attacks, 1893......Page 141
WILLIAM POEL defends Webster, 1893......Page 152
A traditionalist protests, 1893......Page 155
GOSSE on Webster's 'tragic poem', 1894......Page 160
Webster in the 'DNB', 1899......Page 164
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 166
INDEX......Page 168