A widowed duchess secretly marries beneath her and is hunted to death by her monstrous brothers. Webster's blood-soaked Jacobean tragedy.
Books that mention The Duchess of Malfi (2)
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides: “she picked up the pile of books on the desk, and looked at the titles—The Duchess of Malfi, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Spanish Tragedy.”
The Pirate by Walter Scott: “Of stormy weather,) some men lie interr'd, Loved the Church so well, and gave so largely to it, They thought it should have canopied their bones Till doomsday;--but all things have their end-- Churches and cities, which have diseases like to men, Must have like death which we have. _Duchess of Malfy._”