John Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. His
The White Devil is a tragedy by English playwright John Webster. According to Webster's own preface to the 1612 Quarto Edition, the play's first performance in that year was a notorious failure; he co
Title page of the 1612 edition of The White Devil
Portrait of Vittoria Accoramboni by Scipione Pulzone (16th century); her murder inspired The White Devil.