“Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men.”

— John Webster

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About John Webster

Playwright • English

John Webster was a prominent English Jacobean dramatist, best known for his tragedies. His most famous works, 'The White Devil' and 'The Duchess of Malfi,' are considered masterpieces of the early 17th-century English...

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