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Duchess of Malfi, The
[ mal-fee ]
noun
- a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
Example Sentences
BBC Four will screen The Duchess of Malfi, the first production at the Globe's recently opened Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, with Gemma Arterton in the lead role.
On screening The Duchess of Malfi: "The danger of doing big landmark events is that you narrow the repertoire of plays or novels down to the ones that everybody's already heard of. The Duchess of Malfi isn't the world's most famous play. It think it's better than quite a lot of Shakespeare plays. So it's great that we're not just getting the most famous titles in the world."
They include The Duchess of Malfi, the first production at the Globe's recently opened Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, that saw former Bond girl Gemma Arterton play the title role.
Like Punchdrunk’s acclaimed versions of “Faust” and “The Duchess of Malfi,” the new show — one of the hottest tickets of the London summer — unfolds inside a gigantic empty space, in this case 200,000 square feet of a shuttered post office building beside the Paddington train station — enough room for 600 theatergoers to roam around.
Duchess of Malfi, The, 199, 200, 202.
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