History & The Arts
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
...family with disastrous consequences. [Described image] Figure 1 Title page of the 1623 quarto version of The Duchess of Malfi. Photo: Lebrecht Authors. The Duchess of Malfi was first performed in 1613 or 1614 by the King’s Men, the acting company to which Shakespeare belonged. The play was not printed until around ten years later in 1623, in quarto, a smaller and less...