The White Devil, or the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano: With the Life, and Death, of Vittoria Corombona, the Famous Venetian Curtizan (Classic Reprint)

The Kindle version is not text, but is, in fact, a series of images (presumably photocopies or screenshots of a different copy) that give the impression of the book. I didn't realise this at first, as it reads pretty much the same as any other ebook, however, it means you can't highlight text and create notes on passages, nor can you select a word and receive a definition of it. It also means you can't change the type of font or resize it, nor will it be affected by themes, and layouts do not properly apply.While it was mostly fine to read, albeit a little small on the font size, I needed to be able to annotate passages, and thus refunded the product and purchased a different printing.

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I purchased this book as a gift for a friend for whom the subject matter greatly interested him. He told me, when prompted, that he gave the book 5 Stars and throughly enjoyed it. It would be a welcome addition to his collection.Hence this review is 3rd party or hearsay. Not having read this book myself and thus cannot give a personal review. Sorry.

John Webster, younger by a generation than Shakespeare, is known for two plays, The White Devil, and The Duchess of Malfi. Of the two, D of M is a maturer work. The White Devil has a more jumbled structure, although it has several powerful scenes, including the "Arraignment of Vittoria," Act III, sc. 2:Mont. My lord duke sent to you a thousand ducatsThe twelfth of August.Vit. _ _ _ _ _ 'Twas to keep your cousinFrom prison; I paid use for 't.Mont. __ __ __ __ I rather think,'Twas interest for his lust.Vit. Who says so but yourself?If you be my accuser,Pray cease to be my judge: come from the bench;Give in your evidence 'gainst me, and let theseBe moderators. My lord cardinal,Were your intelligencing ears as lovingAs to my thoughts, had you an honest tongue,I would not care though you proclaim'd them all.Mont. Go to, go to. After your goodly and vainglorious banquet,I 'll give you a choke-pear.Vit. O' your own grafting?(I can't even tell if that last crack was dirty or not!)The Jacobean drama portrayed a world which had lost its firm foundation (Webster name-drops Galileo). Vittoria's brother Flamenio is overeducated, poor, and immoral. His last scene is his greatest:Lodo. Oh, I could kill you forty times a day,And use 't four years together, 'twere too little!Naught grieves but that you are too few to feedThe famine of our vengeance. What dost think on?Flam. Nothing; of nothing: leave thy idle questions.I am i' th' way to study a long silence:To prate were idle. I remember nothing.There 's nothing of so infinite vexationAs man's own thoughts.The Kindle edition, via Gutenberg, is well-formatted with few, if any typos. It is completely free of notes.