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The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

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In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy articulates perennial questions about female autonomy and class distinction.

Date Published: 24 November 2009
Contributors:
Emma Smith
In Collection(s): Shakespeare’s Contemporary dramatists, Questioning Genre, Feminist Approaches to Literature, John Webster
Keywords:
english, language, jacobean, elizabethan, theatre, renaissance, #greatwriters
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster by Emma Smith at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/duchess-malfi-john-webster. Published on 24 November 2009. Accessed on 30 October 2025.

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