John Webster

Introduction; Part 1 Comments; Chapter 1 Webster on âThe White Devilâ 1612; Chapter 2 Websterâs View of âThe Duchess of Malfiâ; Chapter 3 The Dedication of âThe DevilâS Law Caseâ; Chapter 4 Three Poems for âThe Duchessâ; Chapter 5 Fitzjeffreyâs Portrait of Websters; Chapter 6 An Italian Envoy Comments on âThe Duchessâ; Chapter 7 Abraham Wrightâs Commonplace Book; Chapter 8 Singular Praise from Samuel Sheppard; Chapter 9 Samuel Pepys on Webster; Chapter 10 Langbaineâs Webster; Chapter 11 On the Failure of Birth Control in âThe Duchess of Malfiâ and âHenry VIIIâ; Chapter 12 Nahum Tate Rewrites âThe White Devilâ; Chapter 13 Lewis Theobald Rewrites âThe Duchess of Malfiâ; Chapter 14 Charles Lamb: Webster Reclaimed; Chapter 15 Reactions to Lamb; Chapter 16 Nathan Drake Ranks the Elizabethans; Chapter 17 âBlackwoodâs Reviews Webster; Chapter 18 Campbell Refutes Lamb; Chapter 19 Hazlitt on Webster 1819,; Chapter 20 Lord Byron Resists But Reads; Chapter 21 Shelleyâs Tastes; Chapter 22 âBarry Cornwallâ on Webster; Chapter 23 Dyceâs Introduction to Webster; Chapter 24 George Darley Writes of Webster; Chapter 25 The âGentlemanâs Magazineâ Considers Webster; Chapter 26 A Historianâs Webster; Chapter 27 The Studentsâ Webster; Chapter 28 âThe Duchess of Malfiâ on Stage; Chapter 29 Isabella Glyn Tours as the Duchess; Chapter 30 âThe Duchessâ in the USA; Chapter 31 The Canon Fires; Chapter 32 Webster on the American Lecture Circuit; Chapter 33 J.A. Symonds in the âCornhill Magazineâ; Chapter 34 William Minto on Webster as Dramatist; Chapter 35 Wardâs âHistoryâ; Chapter 36 Swinburne on Webster; Chapter 37 James Russell Lowell Lectures; Chapter 38 Saintsburyâs Survey; Chapter 39 J.A. Symonds on Webster; Chapter 40 The Typical Webster; Chapter 41 âThe Duchess of Malfiâ in London; Chapter 42 Archer Attacks; Chapter 43 William Poel Defends Webster; Chapter 44 A Traditionalist Protests; Chapter 45 Gosse on Websterâs âTragic Poemâ; Chapter 46 Webster in the âDNBâ;