Who is John Webster

John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1632) 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 life and career overlapped with Shakespeare's.

Biography

Webster's life is obscure and the dates of his birth and death are not known. His father, a carriage maker also named John Webster, married a blacksmith's daughter named Elizabeth Coates on 4 November 1577 and it is likely that Webster was born not long after, in or near London. The family lived in St Sepulchre's parish. His father John and uncle Edward were Freemen of the Merchant Taylors' Company and Webster attended Merchant Taylors' School in Suffolk Lane, London. On 1 August 1598, "John...
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John Webster Poems

• The Madman's Song
  Oh, let us howl some heavy note,
  Some deadly-dogged howl,
  Sounding as from the threatening throat
  Of beasts and fatal fowl! ...
• A Monumental Column
  TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT CARR, VISCOUNT ROCHESTER, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL.
  
  My right noble lord,
  ...
• Death Song
  Hark, now everything is still;
  The screech-owl and the whistler shrill
  Call upon our dame aloud,
  And bid her quickly don her shroud; ...
• A Land Dirge
  Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren,
  Since o'er shady groves they hover
  And with leaves and flowers do cover
  The friendless bodies of unburied men....
• Hark, Now Everything Is Still
  HARK, now everything is still,
  The screech-owl and the whistler shrill,
  Call upon our dame aloud,
  And bid her quickly don her shroud!...

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Comments about John Webster

• Onsnowinblack: i hope ben affleck works on me n roductions of some phat john webster plays! we were john webster together in a past lifetime. that makes me cummies!
• Fomobuk: "eagles commonly fly alone. they are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. " - john webster
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• Ct_lenard: “god is not summoned into the presence of reason; reason is summoned into the presence of god.” -john webster
• Chetflexington: john’s house on lake austin walked so webster’s lake house in mid to late april could run

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