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Duchess of Malfi

"Filmed in a beautiful 17th century mansion. John Webster's brooding tragedy is a typical Jacobean melodrama: a complex plot, splendid language and a great deal of violence, ending in the deaths of all the leading characters." [c.f. container].

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  • "A screen adaptation of a play of murder and torment written by John Webster, and English playwright of the generation after Shakespeare."
  • ""Filmed in a beautiful 17th century mansion. John Webster's brooding tragedy is a typical Jacobean melodrama: a complex plot, splendid language and a great deal of violence, ending in the deaths of all the leading characters." [c.f. container]."@en
  • "A dramatizatin of John Webster's play of the same title, about a young widow who becomes a victim of vengeance when she ignores her family's wishes and remarries."@en
  • "A dramatization of John Webster's Jacobean tragedy, about a young widow who becomes a victim of vengeance when she ignores her family's wishes and remarries."@en
  • "The crime for the Duchess is her secret marriage with her steward, for which she is sentenced to insanity and death by her family."@en
  • "The duchess, a high-spirited and high-minded widow, reveals her love for the honest Antonio, stewart at her court, and secretly marries him, despite the warnings of her two brothers, Ferdinand, duke of Calabria, and the Cardinal, and immediately after informing them that she has no intention of remarrying. The brothers place in her employment as a spy the cynical Bosola, who betrays her to them. The duchess & Antonio fly & separate. She is captured & is subjected to mental tortures and finally she is strangled with two of her children. Retribution overtakes the murderers : Ferdinand goes mad ; the Cardinal is killed by the remorsefull Bosola, and Bosola by Ferdinand. Bosola has already killed Antonio, mistaking him for the Cardinal."@en
  • "A dramatization of John Webster's play of the same title, about a young widow who becomes a victim of vengeance when she ignores her family's wishes and remarries."@en
  • "A dramatization of John Webster's play of the same title, about a young widow who becomes a victim of vengeance when she ignores her family's wishes and remarries."
  • "Screen adaptation of John Webster's play about a young widow who becomes a victim of vengeance when she ignores her family's wishes and remarries."

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  • "Drama"@en
  • "Film and video adaptations"@en
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Film adaptations"@en

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  • "Duchess of Malfi"@en
  • "The Duchess of Malfi"
  • "The Duchess of Malfi"@en
  • "The duchess of Malfi"@en

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