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Should he go on acting upon this theory, which of our shelves is safe? The slight vacuum in the left-hand case two shelves from the ceiling scarcely distinguishable but by the quick eye of a loser was whilom the commodious resting-place of Brown on Urn Burial. Just below, Dodsley's dramas want their fourth volume, where Vittoria Corombona is!
I home and then took my wife out, and in a coach of a gentlewoman's that had been to visit my Lady Batten and was going home again our way, we went to the Theatre, but coming late, and sitting in an ill place, I never had so little pleasure in a play in my life, yet it was the first time that ever I saw it, "Victoria Corombona." Methinks a very poor play.
The character of the 'White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona, is perhaps the most masterly creation of Webster's genius. Though her history is a true one in its leading incidents, the poet, while portraying a real personage, has conceived an original individuality. It is impossible to know for certain how far the actual Vittoria was guilty of her first husband's murder.
Webster, in his Tragedy of Vittoria Corombona , refers to this touching habit of these birds thus: "Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er the shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men."
The same pathos surrounds the melancholy portrait of Isabella in 'Vittoria Corombona. But Isabella, in that play, serves chiefly to enhance the tyranny of her triumphant rival. The main difficulty under which these scenes of rarest pathos would labour, were they brought upon the stage, is their simplicity in contrast with the ghastly and contorted horrors that envelop them.
Four plays are known to be his, The White Devil, or the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona , Appius and Virginia , The Devil's Law Case , and The Duchess of Malfi , and he collaborated with Drayton, Middleton, Heywood, Dekker, etc., in the production of others.
Lucy fell, the Beautiful White Devil rolled from her hand. Mr. Beebe picked it up, and said: "The name of this ball is Vittoria Corombona, please." But his correction passed unheeded. Freddy possessed to a high degree the power of lashing little girls to fury, and in half a minute he had transformed Minnie from a well-mannered child into a howling wilderness.
To the Italian text has been added the Teutonic commentary, and both are fused by a dramatic genius into one living whole. One of these men is Flamineo, the brother of Vittoria Corombona, upon whose part the action of the 'White Devil' depends.
I home and then took my wife out, and in a coach of a gentlewoman's that had been to visit my Lady Batten and was going home again our way, we went to the Theatre, but coming late, and sitting in an ill place, I never had so little pleasure in a play in my life, yet it was the first time that ever I saw it, "Victoria Corombona." Methinks a very poor play.
says the brother of the Duchess, when he has procured her murder and stands before the corpse. Vittoria Corombona is described in the old editions as "a night-piece," and it should, indeed, be acted by the shuddering light of torches, and with the cry of the screech-owl to punctuate the speeches.
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