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'The White Devil' (full original title: 'The White Divel; or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano. With The Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan') is a tragedy by English playwright John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634).
The story is loosely based on an event in Italy thirty years prior to the play's composition: the murder of Vittoria Accoramboni in Padua on 22 December 1585. Webster's dramatisation of this event turned Italian corruption into a vehicle for depicting "the political and moral state of England in his own day",particularly the corruption in the royal court
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Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Release date: 10 June 2014
ISBN-10 : 1500143057 | ISBN-13: 9781500143053
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Release date: 10 June 2014
ISBN-10 : 1500143057 | ISBN-13: 9781500143053
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