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Though he has since become recognised as one of the greatest writers of the Jacobean era, Webster's plays were not particularly popular in his own lifetime, and very little is known about him. His father was a successful coachmaker in Smithfield, London, and Webster may have earned a living by combi .. .. more >>

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"We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and bandied
Which way please them."
John Webster (1580-1625), British dramatist. repr. In The Complete Works of John Webster, ed. F.L. Lucas (1927). Bosola, in The Duchess of Malfi, act 5, sc. 4, l. 53-4 (1623). See Shakespeare's comment on "life and death," expressing a similar idea.

"Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out:
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards, and bedews the heavens."
John Webster (1580-1625), British dramatist. repr. In The Complete Works of John Webster, ed. F.L. Lucas (1927). Bosola, in The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc. 2, l. 260-2 (1623).

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John Webster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) [1] was an English Jacobean dramatist, and a late contemporary of William Shakespeare. His tragedies The White Devil and ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Webster

John Webster (1580?-1625?)
John Webster, Jacobean dramatist. Quotes, Biography, works, essays, and web resources.
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/webster/

The Life of John Webster (1580?-1625?)
Very little is known about the life of John Webster. He was the son of a London carriage maker, John Webster, who was a member of the Merchant Taylors' ...
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/webster/webbio.htm

John Webster (1580? - 1635?) - author of The White Devil and The ...
Biography of Elizabethan playwright John Webster--plus links to all of his works currently in print.
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc27.html

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