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Book SynopsisChristina Luckyj is Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Canada.
Trade Review‘This book will be invaluable to anyone teaching this extraordinary play. The essays in the volume furnish detailed investigations of historical contexts and illuminating readings of the play while guiding the reader toward other relevant scholarship. I will certainly have it to hand the next time I teach The Duchess.' -- Professor Elizabeth Hanson, Department of English, Queen's University, Canada
Luckyj's extremely comprehensive and varied collection of essays will ensure that no teacher of the play need feel that they are going into a wilderness. -- The Use of English
This new collection offers a dense, yet surprisingly easy-to-digest survey of literature that I would recommend to any person teaching or researching Webster. -- Erin Ashworth-King, Angelo State University * Sixteenth Century Journal *
Table of ContentsSeries Introduction; Timeline and Introduction, Christina Luckyj; 1. The Critical Backstory, David Gunby; 2. Performance History, Roberta Barker; 3. The State of the Art: Critical Approaches 2000-2008, Dympna Callaghan; 4. New Directions: 'Staging Secret Interiors: The Duchess of Malfi as Inns of Court and Anticourt Drama', Curtis Perry and Melissa Water; 5. The Duchess's Marriage in Contemporary Contexts Leah S. Marcus; 6. New Directions: 'Can this be certain?': The Duchess of Malfi's Secrets, Frances E. Dolan; 7. 'Greek is Turned Turk': Catholic Nostalgia in The Duchess of Malfi, Todd Borlik; 8. A Survey of Resources, Christy Desmet; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.
