The Mysterious Mr Webster: BBC Arts at the Globe

Taal: nld
Categorie: kunst, cultuur, theater, dans

Documentary telling the story of the son of a coach-maker with a highly developed sense of the macabre, who ended up rivalling Shakespeare. John Webster's life was shadowy and his plays darkly imagined, but his masterpiece The Duchess Of Malfi is one of the jewels of the English Renaissance. This gothic tale of forbidden love, intrigue, betrayal and murder is the most frequently performed play of the period not written by Shakespeare. Professor James Shapiro goes in search of the mysterious...