The Duchess of Malfi [1972] - Part 10

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John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" is a chilling tale of jealousy, madness, and murder.
After the death of her first husband, a young and wealthy Duchess secretly marries another man below her rank. However, with the help of a morally-confused "intelligencer" named Bosola, the Duchess' transgression is soon discovered, leaving her at the mercy of her corrupt, possessive and unbalanced brothers. As her dangerous siblings seek their revenge, intrigue, plot-twists, madness, poisonings, accidental stabbings, incest, werewolves, ghosts and severed limbs abound, eventually leading to the gruesome and unrelenting downfall of the entire family and all who had been influenced by their actions.
Arguably the most popular of the Jacobean tragedies, "The Duchess of Malfi" is a provocative tale of love, power, obsession, and madness.
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Cast:
Eileen Atkins - The Duchess
Michael Bryant - Daniel de Bosola
Charles Kay - Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria
T.P. McKenna - The Cardinal
Gary Bond - Antonio Bologna
Jean Gilpin - Julia
Jerome Willis - Delio
Sheila Ballantine - Cariola
Tim Curry - a madman
directed by James MacTaggart
Produced for television by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), released October 10th, 1972 (c)
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"The Duchess of Malfi" is a meditation on power--political, religious, and sexual--and presents a bleak, violent, and fascinating world couched in some of the most beautiful language ever put on the stage. The Duchess of Malfi's description of a world bereft of moral values on its highest levels fascinates and scandalises us to this day.
A macabre, tragic play, John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" was written in 161213. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14. Published for the first time in 1623, the play is loosely based on true events that occurred between about 1508 and 1513, recounted in William Painter's The Palace of Pleasure (1567). The Duchess was Giovanna d'Aragona, whose father, Arrigo d'Aragona, Marquis of Gerace, was an illegitimate son of Ferdinand I of Naples. Her husbands were Alfonso Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, and (as in the play) Antonio Bologna.

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@honeyjbc1 10 лет назад

Bosola as played here by Michael Bryant in a spectacular performance is such a treat. I always loved this great actor. He lowered his voice for the role. He had one of the most gorgeous voices in the world. Michael Bryant was king of the subtle actors. The National Theatre was lucky to have him and I was lucky to have admired him and even become his friend.

@marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974 2 года назад

Michael Bryant is really one of my all time favourites...riveting acting by all here..

@gerardjagroo 4 года назад

Bosola ordered the death of the Duchess, her children and maid and *suddenly gets a fit of conscience when he was told he wouldn't be paid for it lol!*

@honeyjbc1 10 лет назад

I am addicted. This is an amazing excerpt. Janet

@CinnAlla 13 лет назад

"I'll go hunt the badger by owl light." Great line. :-D

@dsly100 3 года назад

I understand owl-light to be not a shade of darkness but an acute act of perception. Helps explain Dylan Thomas's title "Altarwise by Owl-light." But many allusive lines chopped like Bosola's description of the impenetrable creep the Cardinal: "Security some men call the suburbs of hell."

@simontaxihall 8 лет назад

Is Bosola suffering from with withdrawal symptoms ? 'We seem to sweat in ice and freeze in fire.'

@bobmcgahey1280 5 лет назад

this is one of the very great plays and this scene I thought of Jeremy Taylors Holy Dying

@sidcr7wr10 5 лет назад

which scene contains the complete monologue of Ferdinand? where he is full of regret where he talks about the Duchess's match and confesses about what he had to gain from her death.

@Xenu 12 лет назад

John Webster is a great playwright but putting him in the same category as Shakespeare and Sophocles is rather absurd.

@samokat3738 2 года назад

Why they didn't do the scene of which Bosola lamenting the duchess after she has died?! :( 'This is mainly sorrow'

@sidcr7wr10 5 лет назад

Specifically the following lines: For let me but examine the cause: What was the meanness of her match to me? Only I must confess I had hope, Had she continu’d widowed, to have gain’d An infinite mass of treasure by her death. And that was the main cause - her marriage - That drew a stream of gall quite through my heart. For thee, as we observe in tragedies That a good actor many times is cursed For playing a villain’s part, I hate thee for’t, And, for my sake, say thou hast done much ill well.