John Webster
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1580?
- Died
- 1625?
- Works
- 123
Top works
- A monvmental colvmne, erected to the liuing memory of the euer-glorious Henry, late prince of Wales ...
- The malcontent
- Die verschiedenen bearbeitungen der novelle von der herzogin von Amalfi des Bandello in den literaturen des XVI. und XVII. jahrhunderts
- Three Jacobean Tragedies ( The Changeling / The Revenger's Tragedy / The White Devil )
- Four Great Elizabethan Plays - Doctor Faustus - the Duchess of Malfi - the Shoemaker's Holiday - Volpone
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- Listeners
- 80
- Total plays
- 363
John Webster (c.1580 – c.1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare. Webster's life is obscure, and his date-of-birth and death date are not known. His father, a coach maker also named John Webster, married a blacksmith's daughter named Elizabeth Coates on 4 November 1577, and it is likely that Webster
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1578
- Died
- 1 January 1634
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Webster
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Merchant Taylors' School
- Languages spoken
- English language
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