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Animal Husbandry Regained: the Place of Farm Animals in Sustainable Agriculture by Revd Prof. John Webster
Category: Science & Natural History
The farming of animals for meat and milk confronts a stark dilemma. While world demand from a growing and more affluent human population is increasing rapidly, there are strong counter-arguments that we should eat less meat and pay more attention to environmental protection, animal welfare and human hea ...Show more
Harry Clark - The Story of a Master Boatbuilder by Ron Clark; John Webster (Editor); Janine Clark ((various roles))
Category: Transport
Harry Clark (1914-2002 is known across Australia for his wooden fishing boats. Born in Williamstown, Harry became a professional shipwright before designing and building wooden 'couta and other fishing boats that are now regarded as collectables. Written by his son, Ron Clark, this is the story of Harry ...Show more
John Webster - Three Plays - The White Devil, the Duchess of Malfi, the Devil's Law-Case by John Webster; David C. Gunby (Introduction by, Notes by)
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The plays of Jacobean dramatist John Webster are masterpieces of early seventeenth-century English theatre. 'The White Devil' depicts a dark, sinister world of duplicity, intrigue and murderous infidelity, while 'The Duchess of Malfi' tells the macabre story of a woman who marries beneath herself and se ...Show more
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster; Elizabeth M. Brennan (Editor)
Category: Classic | Series: New Mermaid Ser.
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchesss of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the often reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes have been augmented to cast further light onWebster's amazin ...Show more
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster; Michael Neill
Category: Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, while its lively introduction provides an essential contextual grounding in the court scandals, anti-Catholic sentiment and Senecan drama that formed a backdrop to Webster' s tragedy. Exploring the challenges of st ...Show more
The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Webster
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Classics
These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new directions. In The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, John Webster explores the role of women and issues of power, sex and corruption in the Italian court, creating two unforgettable a ...Show more
Three Revenge Tragedies: "The Revenger's Tragedy","The White Devil","The Changeling" by Thomas Middleton; John Webster Cyril Tourneur; Gamini Salgado (Editor, Introduction by, Foreword by); Cyril Tourneur; John Webster; Cyril Tourneur; John Webster
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Following the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign in the early seventeenth century, the new court of King James was beset by political instability and moral corruption. This atmosphere provided fertile ground for the dramatists of the age, whose plays explore the ways in which social decadence and the abuse ...Show more
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