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jettiedabs's review against another edition
5.0
This play is richly crafted to be suspenseful, intricately engaging and a perfect level of a bit saucy. Flamineo is to this day my favourite character in all of literature. The whole text is amazing and it's the text I recommend to everyone!
lois_bozilovic's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
mrears0_0's review against another edition
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
hannah_bookworm's review against another edition
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
eb00kie's review against another edition
5.0
Most of them are from the Italian peninsula, but they all speak like Brits - metaphors are wonderful devices in literature and the satire is strong in this one.
Thanks to Martin Geeson, Timothy Ferguson, Max Korlinge, mb, Elizabeth Klett, David Nicol, Lars Rolander, Carol Box, Lucy Perry, Bruce Pirie, Availle, Arielle Lipshaw, Marty Kris, Ron Altman, Algy Pug, Leonard Wilson, Todd, Kristingj, Bev J. Stevens, David Lawrence for volunteering to read the free Librivox edition
The play is a feast; ripe with themes such as revenge, individualism, appearances, misogyny, female virtue, the Church and the society versus individualism, class and medieval values, it employs, foreshadowing, metaphore and genre-specific motifs, rendering five acts with favors innumerable.
Thanks to Martin Geeson, Timothy Ferguson, Max Korlinge, mb, Elizabeth Klett, David Nicol, Lars Rolander, Carol Box, Lucy Perry, Bruce Pirie, Availle, Arielle Lipshaw, Marty Kris, Ron Altman, Algy Pug, Leonard Wilson, Todd, Kristingj, Bev J. Stevens, David Lawrence for volunteering to read the free Librivox edition
The play is a feast; ripe with themes such as revenge, individualism, appearances, misogyny, female virtue, the Church and the society versus individualism, class and medieval values, it employs, foreshadowing, metaphore and genre-specific motifs, rendering five acts with favors innumerable.
gillothen's review against another edition
5.0
I feel this is even better than The Duchess of Malfi. Superb characters, amazing verse, crazy, bizarre methods of murder. What's not to like?
Read as part of the Shakespeare Institute's 2019 Readathon, #Websterthon
And again in October 2019 in the SI Thursday reading group. It is more magnificent every time I read it.
Read as part of the Shakespeare Institute's 2019 Readathon, #Websterthon
And again in October 2019 in the SI Thursday reading group. It is more magnificent every time I read it.
georgie_mb's review against another edition
4.0
I haven’t read a play in a while, and I really gave myself a challenge with this one!!
Webster’s language is beautiful, and can be really funny at times. He can play with words so well, yet still get across what is happening, which I think some people can struggle with when reading Elizabethan and Jacobean plays.
I did sort of lose track near to the end (not sure if it was just me and I missed something) as some of the events and reasonings for people doing things didn’t make sense, but sometimes in plays like this it doesn’t always show a lot of lead up.
There are some great speeches in this, so I’ll be keeping this on my bookshelf if I want to try out a new monologue for my acting
Webster’s language is beautiful, and can be really funny at times. He can play with words so well, yet still get across what is happening, which I think some people can struggle with when reading Elizabethan and Jacobean plays.
I did sort of lose track near to the end (not sure if it was just me and I missed something) as some of the events and reasonings for people doing things didn’t make sense, but sometimes in plays like this it doesn’t always show a lot of lead up.
There are some great speeches in this, so I’ll be keeping this on my bookshelf if I want to try out a new monologue for my acting