The Duchess of Malfi [1972] - Part 2
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- John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" is a chilling tale of jealousy, madness, and murder.
After the death of her first husband, a young and wealthy Duchess secretly marries another man below her rank. However, with the help of a morally-confused "intelligencer" named Bosola, the Duchess' transgression is soon discovered, leaving her at the mercy of her corrupt, possessive and unbalanced brothers. As her dangerous siblings seek their revenge, intrigue, plot-twists, madness, poisonings, accidental stabbings, incest, werewolves, ghosts and severed limbs abound, eventually leading to the gruesome and unrelenting downfall of the entire family and all who had been influenced by their actions.
Arguably the most popular of the Jacobean tragedies, "The Duchess of Malfi" is a provocative tale of love, power, obsession, and madness.
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Cast:
Eileen Atkins - The Duchess
Michael Bryant - Daniel de Bosola
Charles Kay - Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria
T.P. McKenna - The Cardinal
Gary Bond - Antonio Bologna
Jean Gilpin - Julia
Jerome Willis - Delio
Sheila Ballantine - Cariola
Tim Curry - a Madman
directed by James MacTaggart
Produced for television by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), released October 10th, 1972 (c)
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"The Duchess of Malfi" is a meditation on power--political, religious, and sexual--and presents a bleak, violent, and fascinating world couched in some of the most beautiful language ever put on the stage. The Duchess of Malfi's description of a world bereft of moral values on its highest levels fascinates and scandalises us to this day.
A macabre, tragic play, John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" was written in 161213. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14. Published for the first time in 1623, the play is loosely based on true events that occurred between about 1508 and 1513, recounted in William Painter's The Palace of Pleasure (1567). The Duchess was Giovanna d'Aragona, whose father, Arrigo d'Aragona, Marquis of Gerace, was an illegitimate son of Ferdinand I of Naples. Her husbands were Alfonso Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, and (as in the play) Antonio Bologna.
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studying this as part of an OU module,I enjoy it more with every viewing.I am your creature.
Two verily villainous brothers.
Thank you for uploading this!
I remember this as an exceedingly bloody Elizabethan play full of Machiavellian nastiness. Eileen Atkins though completely owns the stage here and she was a stone cold fox.
*Jacobean
John Webster
Lovely Shakespearian dialogue pity tis about interfering good for nothings. THE most important thing of the play.
Her brother the Duke of Calabria is madly in love with her is madly jealous
What is that house at 5:00? It doesn't look like Italy, but it does look beyond creepy.
Shayna Hello
Nice blue steel :L but the best one is definitley 6:33. I'm tempted to start saying "farewell LUSTY widow" instead of goodbye :)
Its his sister...so a little bit weird.
Anyone watching this for clues to writing an OU essay in A230?
5:00
I am a two husband girl I would have two husbands perhaps at the same time just to spite them and escape danger.
What's with the entirely gratuitous shot of the house?! Feels rather as though they were told they could use it, but only if they showed the whole property from the outside at some point!
Good thing it's not under a flight path.
What right has ANY to interfere with marital rights love life????
Violating their sister's sexual, marital rights
Lol just about to start A230.
MEN telling Women what to do. Line in sexist thinking dont forget to add to essays and not credit ME in the comments giving better idea of intellect than one deserves, great students abound.