The Courier's Tragedy

[Tim Strzechowski]

Just in quick response to Dave's post (and for anyone interested in
Jacobean drama), here are a few off-the-top-of-my-head links to Jacobean
theatre.

For some general characteristics of Jacobean drama:
http://www.bartleby.com/216/0901.html
http://w2.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=365626

For brief summaries of some major (and minor) Jacobean dramas:
http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/17cdrama.htm

Revenge tragedy, from which Jacobean is derived in part:
http://www.xrefer.com/entry/374462

As mentioned in a previous post, there's a pretty good article that
discusses Desire and Violence in Jacobean Tragedy:
http://www.twics.com/%7Ejupiter/luv2deth.html

Regarding Webster's _The Duchess of Malfi_, there's a discussion of the

theme of entrapment:
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/dali/88/prison.htm

and incestual themes:
http://www.mtsn.org.uk/acdepts/english/general/duchessofmalfi.htm

both of which come from this site:
http://drama.alphalink.com.au/vce/duchess.htm

Tim