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Webster expressed his own dissatisfaction with the first performance of The White Devil. Whilst approving of the acting he wrote ‘it was acted, in so dull a time of winter, presented in so open and black a theatre, that it wanted (that which is the only grace and setting out of a tragedy) a full and understanding auditory’. (To the Reader, The White Devil, Revels edn, p.2). However repeat performances and a production of The Duchess of Malfi at the Blackfriars Theatre were much more popular. When they appeared in print, the plays went through several editions.
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© 1986 David A. Male
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Male, D.A. (1986). Critical Reception. In: The White Devil and the Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08340-4_12
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