Duchess of Malfi, 1623
Original engl.: "Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright, // But looked to near have neither heat nor light."
Zitate von John Webster
1 0John Webster
Geburtstag: 1578
Todesdatum: 1634
John Webster war ein englischer Dramatiker.
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„Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.“
Act V, scene v.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
„Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.“
— John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Act IV, scene ii.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
Quelle: The Duchess of Malfi
— John Webster, The White Devil
Act I, scene ii. Compare: "To public feasts, where meet a public rout,— Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out", John Davies, Contention betwixt a Wife, etc.
The White Devil (1612)
Academiarum Examen, or the Examination of Academies (1654), p. 71; of chemistry.
„I saw him going the way of all flesh.“
Westward Hoe, Act II, scene ii.
„Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.“
— John Webster, The White Devil
Act IV, scene 4. Compare Distance.
The White Devil (1612)
Westward Hoe, Act II, scene ii. See also Wine, Friendship.
Act IV, scene ii.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
„But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.“
— John Webster, The White Devil
Act V, scene iv.
The White Devil (1612)
— John Webster, The White Devil
Act V, scene iv.
The White Devil (1612)
— John Webster, The White Devil
Act III, scene ii.
The White Devil (1612)
„I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.“
Act IV, scene ii. Compare: "Death hath so many doors to let out life", John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country, act ii, scene 2.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
— John Webster, The Devil's Law Case
The Devil's Law Case (1623).
„Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.“
— John Webster, The White Devil
Act V, scene vi.
The White Devil (1612)
„Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near have neither heat nor light.“
Act IV, scene ii.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
Kenneth Tynan, review of The Duchess of Malfi at the Aldwych Theatre (1960), from Tynan Left and Right (1967).
