The White Devil
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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.
F. L. Lucas
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Frank Laurence Lucas was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Par
Lucas in 1957
Lucas in 1914
Miraumont-sur-Ancre (March 1917), taken in the British advance of 25 Feb. 1917. The Official History mentions "a daring and resourceful reconnaissance on the crest south of Miraumont by Lt. F. L. Lucas, 7/Royal West Kent, on the afternoon of Feb. 22, conducted whilst British shrapnel was bursting behind him", which brought the first indication of the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line.
The Fellows' Building, King's. Of King's Lucas wrote: "Never in my experience of half a lifetime has it declined for one moment from that tradition of humanism, tolerance, and freedom in which I believe it unsurpassed throughout the Universities of the world."