1930 The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil: Two Plays

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First thus, the first collection of these two plays illustrated by Keen. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven plates, and numerous in-text images and decorations. Collated complete. Two plays from John Webster, an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early seventeenth-century English stage. Being 'The Duchess of Malfi', a Jacobean revenge tragedy loosely based on events that occurred between 1508 and 1513 surrounding Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, and 'The White Devil' based on an event in Italy thirty years prior to the play's composition: the murder of Vittoria Accoramboni in Padua. Illustrated by Henry Keen, a British book illustrator, lithographer, and printmaker of the Beardsley tradition.