The Duchess of Malfi

The Duchess of Amalfi (also: The Duchess of Malfi, English The Duchess of Malfi ) is a macabre tragedy of the English dramatist John Webster. It is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the English drama of Shakespeare's time. Probably 1613 or 1614, first performed 1623 play was first published in print under the title The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy.

Webster was inspired by a short story Matteo Bandellos. Lope de Vega's play El Mayordomo de la Duquesa de Amalfi Webster did not know well.

Musical settings

  • Stephen Oliver: The Duchess of Malfi, opera, first performed in 1971 in Oxford
  • Stephen Douglas Burton: The Duchess of Malfi, opera, first performed in 1978 in Wolf Trap
  • Torsten Rasch: The Duchess of Malfi, opera, commissioned by the English National Opera, premiered in 2010 in London, German premiere in 2013 in Chemnitz

German editions

  • The Duchess of Amalfi, in: Friedrich Bodenstedtstraße: Shakespeare's contemporaries and their works, in characteristics and translations. Volume 1 John Webster. Berlin 1858, pp. 17ff. ( Digitized )
  • The Duchess of Malfi. German by Elisabeth Plessen. Using materials of the play. ( At the same time the program book of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-498-07306-0
  • The Duchess of Malfi. German by Alfred Marnau. Greno, Nördlingen, 1986, ISBN 3-921568-90-0 (Text in English and German )
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