The Duchess of Malfi

New comprehensive editions, with illustrated introductions to the historical, critical and performance history of each of the plays, with textual and commentary notes.

Leah Marcus is the Edwin Mims Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

'I found it more exciting than I should probably admit to at seeing the Shakespeare-rich layer of annotation underpinning the text on the page of a play - The Duchess of Malfi - that simply hasn't been treated in that way before, especially in terms of introductory matter.' Shakespeare Bookshop Newsletter (December 2009)