John Webster

John Webster (c.1580 – c.1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare.

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    We are merely the stars’ tennis-balls, struck and bandied
    Which way please them.
    —John Webster (1580–1625)