A tragedy by the English playwright J. Webster. First performed in 1614. It is based on The Palace of Pleasures by the 16th-century writer William Painter. The lively and beautiful widowed Duchess of Malfea secretly marries Antonio, a conscientious steward, and gives birth to two children. However, this fact is soon discovered by her two brothers, the Cardinal and Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, who are both esteemed for the honor of the family. To avoid her brothers' revenge, she lets her husband escape and tries to escape to another country herself, but she is captured and, after being subjected to repeated and extremely cruel mental torture in prison by the cruel Bosola, a pawn of her brothers, she is strangled to death along with her maid. Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information |
イギリスの劇作家J.ウェブスター作の悲劇。1614年初演。16世紀の著述家ウィリアム・ペインターの《快楽の宮殿》から題材を得ている。活発で美しい未亡人モールフィ公爵夫人は,ひそかに謹直な家令アントニオと結婚して2児をもうけるが,やがてその事実は家門の名誉を重んじる2人の兄,枢機卿とカラブリア公爵ファーディナンドの知るところとなる。兄たちの復讐を避けるべく彼女は夫を逃がしてみずからも他国に落ちのびようとするが捕らえられ,兄たちの手先である残忍なボゾラによって獄中で繰り返し陰惨きわまりない精神的責め苦にさらされたあげく,侍女ともども絞殺される。
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