Critic quotes for The White Devil 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureThe White Devil - John WebsterA2/A-levelOCR Created by: Matilda HaymesCreated on: 13-04-14 15:58 "Most of the people that come to that playhouse, resemble... ignorant asses" John Webster 1 of 12 A work "so obscure that none shall understand him" Henry Fitzjeffrey 1617 2 of 12 "Mr Webster's most excellent tragedy" Samuel Sheppard 1651 3 of 12 "A very poor play" Samuel Pepys 1661 4 of 12 "A play of Webster's is full of the feverish and ghastly turmoil of a nest of maggots" Rupert Brooke 5 of 12 "They are pretty generally agreed to be the best tragedies written since Shakespeare's time" Charles Kingsley 6 of 12 "He has to arouse terror and pity, not thought" Charles Kingsley 7 of 12 "attends to the power relations inscribed in the areas patriarchal history treats as incidental" Catherine Belsey 8 of 12 "The drama from 1590 to 1625 is feminist in sympathy" Juliet Dusinberre 9 of 12 Cornelia has "internalised her position as one of the exploited...by embracing the Christian ethic of humility and passive virtue" Jonathan Dollimore 10 of 12 "Dramatised misogyny" Kathleen McLuskie 11 of 12 "Flamineo... is blocked by a discrepancy between his aspirations and the means available for their fulfillment" Dena Goldberg 12 of 12
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