![]() ![]() When their spy, Bosola, discovers that the Duchess has secretly married and carries Antonio’s child, they exact a terrible and horrific revenge. But her rancorous brothers, Ferdinand and the Cardinal, are implacably opposed to the match. The Duchess of Malfi is a revenge tragedy. The play is inspired by real events that occurred in Italy in the early 1500s. It follows the Duchess of Amalfi as she is spied on, tortured, and eventually murdered by her brothers for disobeying them. The widowed Duchess of Malfi longs to marry her lover, the steward Antonio. The Duchess of Malfi (1623) is a play by playwright John Webster. Gemma made her professional stage debut at the Globe Theatre in 2007, when she won huge critical acclaim as Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost. Early in The Duchess of Malfi, Antonio Bologna, the Duchesss steward, and later, husband, praises her as. Gemma Arterton returns to the Globe in the title role of the Duchess (2014), bringing 'beauty, determination, and a sense of moral goodness' (The Guardian). The Duchess of Malfi: plot and character overview. This most intimate Jacobean tragedy was the ideal curtain-raiser for our first season in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. View online: Bloomsbury Drama Online Core Collection (2020-2022 Updates). First performed by the King’s Men – Shakespeare’s own company – ‘privately at the Blackfriars and publicly at the Globe’, The Duchess of Malfi is a thrilling combination of brilliant coups de théâtre, horrific set-pieces and vivid characters – notably the tragic Duchess and the subtly villainous Bosola – all lit by Webster’s obsessional imagination. The Duchess (of Malfi), Zinnie Harriss radical take on Websters great revenge. ![]()
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