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A-Z: General definitions: John Webster
Definition
(c.1580 - 1625) an English playwright and contemporary of William Shakespeare, particularly associated with Jacobean revenge drama. See John Webster biography.
Sixteenth/seventeenth century world-renowned English poet and playwright of comedies, histories and tragedies.
Belonging to the reign of James I of England (1603-25)
The revenge play or revenge tragedy was a popular genre in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period which looked to the Roman poet Seneca for its origins.
