One character in this play tells a story about men pleading with Jupiter that Phoebus be gelded, for if the sun had children the world would grow too hot.
One character in this play tells a story about men pleading with Jupiter that Phoebus be gelded, for if the sun had children the world would grow too hot. Another anecdote in this play describes a crocodile that tries to eat the bird that cured it of a tooth-worm. One character in this play relates a dream in which her husband accuses her of trying to uproot a yew tree and attempts to bury her alive, until a whirlwind blows a branch o the yew tree, striking and killing him. In this play, one character is tried for the murder of her husband, who died in a staged horse-vaulting accident, and is sentenced to live in a home for penitent whores. In this play, Cornelia mourns for her son Marcello, who is killed by his brother, and, in the guise of a monk, Ludovico Âfinishes off a man whose helmet he had poisoned. Flamineo aids Brachiano in killing Isabella, so that he may pursue an adulterous aair with its title character. For 10 points, the murderous noblewoman Vittoria Corombona is the title character of what revenge tragedy by John Webster?
One character in this play tells a story about men pleading with Jupiter that Phoebus be gelded, for if the sun had children the world would grow too hot.
The White Devil