The Duchess of Malfi

by John Webster

For those looking for a little more information on the reference to The Dutchess of Malfi in Exeunt Demon King, we have an excerpt from Wikipedia for you.

“The play begins as a love story, when the Duchess marries beneath her class, and ends as a nightmarish tragedy as her two brothers undertake their revenge, destroying themselves in the process. Jacobean drama continued the trend of stage violence and horror set by Elizabethan tragedy, under the influence of Seneca. The complexity of some of the play’s characters, particularly Bosola and the Duchess, and Webster’s poetic language, have led many critics to consider The Duchess of Malfi among the greatest tragedies of English renaissance drama.”