ABSTRACT
John Webster, whom we shall place immediately after Ford, as next, perhaps, in talent, resembled him in a predilection for the terrible and strange, but with a cast of character still more lawless and impetuous.... The tragedies, especially 'The White Devil,' or 'Vittoria Corombona,' first printed in 1612, and 'The Dutchesse of Malfy,' in 1623, are very striking, though, in many respects, very eccentric proofs of dramatic vigour.
