The white devil

John Webster

Original title: Plays

first published 1830 Cambridge University Press, 1995

Regents Renaissance drama series

The White Devil gives us a compellingly dangerous and fascinating woman who consents to the murder of her ineffectual husband. Her defence against the charge of adultery transforms a lurid tale of crime into high tragedy. Webster's play is a vivid study of sexual and political intrigue, written in incomparable verse and prose. John Russell Brown's new introduction uses the latest developments in the study of Jacobea...

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Editions we hold

The white devil edition · 2009 · Oxford University Press · 438 pages · 9780199539284
The white devil edition · 1998 · Oxford University Press · 438 pages
The white devil edition · 1996 · Manchester University Press · 168 pages
The white devil edition · 1996 · Nick Hern Books in association with the Royal Shakespeare Co., Stratford · 126 pages
The white devil edition · 1996 · A & C Black · 152 pages
The white devil edition · 1996 · Oxford University Press · 438 pages
The works of John Webster edition · 1995 · Cambridge University Press
The white devil edition · 1989 · A & C Black · 174 pages
The white devil edition · 1987 · Longman · 264 pages
The white devil edition · 1986 · Methuen · 145 pages
The white devil edition · 1977 · Manchester University Press · 205 pages
The white devil. edition · 1970 · University of California Press · 149 pages

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