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John Webster   /dʒɑn wˈɛbstər/   Listen
John Webster

noun
1.
English playwright (1580-1625).  Synonym: Webster.






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"John webster" Quotes from Famous Books



... Beaumont. John Lyly. John Fletcher. Thomas Kyd. John Webster. Robert Greene. Philip Massinger. Christopher Marlowe. John Ford. William Shakespeare. Thomas ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall

... instance is an equally good illustration also of that curious process which, in the English language, has in time created for a single word ("cleave," for instance) two exactly opposite meanings. A line from John Webster's Appius and Virginia might be cited as showing how near his ...
— The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum • Wallace Irwin

... biography at long intervals. But the whole field has never been occupied by the professed biographer. In some cases the delay has meant loss of opportunity for ever. Very many distinguished Elizabethan and Jacobean authors have shared the fate of John Webster, next to Shakespeare the most eminent tragic dramatist of the era, of whom no biography was ever attempted, and ...
— Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee

... turned into Cats, Dogs, raise Tempests or the like is utterly denied and disproved. Wherein is also handled, The existence of Angels and Spirits, the truth of Apparitions, the Nature of Astral and Sydereal Spirits, the force of Charms and Philters; with other abstruse matters. By John Webster, Practitioner in Physick. Falsa etenim opiniones Hominum non solum surdos sed et coecos faciunt, ita ut videre nequeant quae aliis perspicua apparent. Galen. lib. 8, de Comp. Med. London: Printed by I.M. and are to be sold by the booksellers in ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell

... was buried in St. Andrew's churchyard. Timbs says that this church has been called the "Poets' Church," for, besides the above, John Webster, dramatic poet, is said to have been parish clerk here, though the register does not confirm it. Robert Savage was christened ...
— Holborn and Bloomsbury - The Fascination of London • Sir Walter Besant



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