webster

Question 1

t.s eliot

Answer 1

Webster was much possessed by death, and saw the skull beneath the skin.

Question 2

brooke

Answer 2

It is… in or near the moment of death that Webster is most triumphant. He adopts the romantic convention that men are, in the second of death, most essentially and significantly themselve

Question 3

tyan

Answer 3

Webster’s characters die superbly, asserting their selfhood to the last breath.

Question 4

brooke

Answer 4

[Webster’s world] is inhabited by people driven, like animals, and perhaps like men, only by their instincts, but more blindly and ruinously.

Question 5

t.s eliot

Answer 5

[Webster is] a very great literary and dramatic genius directed towards chaos.

Question 6

white

Answer 6

[Webster’s villains] meet their deaths in ways which satisfy poetic justice.

Question 7

cecil

Answer 7

The world as seen by [Webster] is, of its nature, incurably corrupt. To be involved in it is to be inescapably involved in evil: all its apparent beauties are a snare and a delusion.

Question 8

cecil

Answer 8

Webster envisages evil in its most extreme form: and he presents it… as far more powerful than good.