the duchess of malfi a play john webster

Robert Carr and his new wife Frances Howard.Īttended by the chaplain to the Venetian ambassador Orazio Busino, who records his repugnance for what he perceives as theġ618: Webster’s third independent play Theĭevil’s Law-Case performed by the Queens’ Men.ġ621: Webster collaborates with Middleton on Anythingġ623: First Quarto of The Duchess of Malfi

Wife, a bestseller memorializing Overbury’s scandalous death by poison at the hands of the King’s favourite Webster’s elegiac tribute to Prince Henry, eldest son of King James and popular Protestant champion, who dies at theġ613/14: Webster’s second independent play Theĭuchess of Malfi per-formed by the King’s Men at the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres.ġ615: Webster contributes thirty-two Characters (including ‘An ExcellentĪctor’ and ‘A Virtuous Widow’) to the sixth edition of Sir Thomas Overbury’s The Thomas Archer containing Webster’s angry and defensive Address to the Reader in which he lambasts audiences as ‘ignorantġ612: Publication of A Monumentall Column, White Devil, performed by Queen Anne’s Men, not well received at the Red Bull. Ho, a popular citizen comedy for the Children of Paul’s.ġ605: Webster collaborates again with Thomas Dekker on Northward Ho.ġ606: Webster marries Sara Peniall, who at age 17 is pregnant with theirġ612: Webster’s first independent play, The Heywood, Chettle, Munday, Middleton and Drayton) recorded in Henslowe’s Diary forġ604: Webster provides the Induction for the third edition of The Malcontent by John Marston, performed by the King’s Men at the Globe.ġ604: Webster collaborates with Thomas Dekker on Westward a wealthy London coachmaker.ġ598: John Webster (possibly the dramatist) admitted to the Middle Temple,ġ602: Payment to Webster (with a team of collaborators including Dekker, Published (‘The Infortunate Mariage of a Gentleman, called Antonio Bologna, with the Duchesse of Malfi, and the pitifullĭeath of them bothe’, being the twenty-third novel).ġ578/79: John Webster born to John Webster Sr. Published (including ‘The Unfortunate marriage of Seigneur Antonio Bologna with the Duchess of Malfi, and the piteousġ567: William Painter, Palace of Pleasure

1498: Giovanna rules as regent in the Duchy of Amalfi after her husband’sġ510: Giovanna’s clandestine marriage to Antonio Bologna revealed.ġ511: Giovanna and her two younger children imprisoned and presumablyġ513: Antonio Bologna murdered by Daniele da Bozzolo.ġ554–1573: The four volumes of Matteo Bandello’s Novelle published (‘Il signor Antonio Bologna sposa la duchesse d’Amalfi’ being the twenty-sixth

The duchess of malfi a play john webster