The Duchess of Malfi
by John Webster
106 pages~2 hrs
“Love defied. Blood required.”
Defying her brothers' lethal obsession with status, a noble widow risks everything for a secret marriage that transforms her court into a chilling house of horrors. This Jacobean masterpiece dives into a dark world of surveillance and madness where the price of choosing love over family is a descent into cold-blooded retribution.
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