Abstract: Between Tourneur and Webster there is more of a gap than appears at first sight. Both used the Revenge convention, but in Webster's plays, it begins to crumble. He uses it intermittently, less as a vehicle than a prop. His ‘impure art’, mixing convention and realism, has been defended by Inga-Stina Ewbank in a number of highly influential studies; she believes that realism and convention can be confused but they can also be fused; and the balance is achieved by poetic means.
Publication Year: 1980
Publication Date: 1980-10-30
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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