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The White Devil
By John Webster - Stage play
Roles
- Duke Bracciano
- Isabella
About this piece
Duke Bracciano rejects his wife Isabella
Summary
The play is based on the life of Vittoria Accoramboni who in the play is named Vittoria Corombona, the daughter of a poor but noble family from Venice and wife to Camillo. The Duke of Brachiano, the man in the scene below, falls in love with Vittoria even if he is already married to Isabella of the powerful Medici family. Vittoria's ambitious brother, Flamineo, who works for the Duke, plots to have his sister marry the Duke. When Isabella comes back to Rome, Flamineo and the Duke conspire together to kill her as well as Vittoria's husband Camillo. The rest of the play follows Lodovico, a Count in love with Isabella, and Isabella's brother Francisco as they plot revenge against Flamineo, Vittoria and the Duke. In this scene Isabella has just come back to Rome, only to be coldly welcomed and then rejected by her husband, Duke Brachiano.
Use cases
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