Frases de John Webster

John Webster fue un dramaturgo inglés de la época de Jacobo I, uno de los principales de su época.

✵ 1578 – 1634
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John Webster: Frases en inglés

“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.”

John Webster The Duchess of Malfi

Act IV, scene ii.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
Fuente: The Duchess of Malfi

“T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,—the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.”

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)

“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)

“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)

“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)