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- Title
WEBSTER AND HORACE.
- Authors
Hamilton, R. W.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the theatrical production "The Duchess of Malfi." In the conclusion, the character Antonio's friend, holding the last surviving child of the Duchess and Antonio in his arms, utters the resonant and gnomic couplet. While it has been pointed out that the latter part of the couplet draws on a proverbial phrase, "The end crowns (or tries) all," it has not hitherto been noted that for the first phrase of the couplet, "Integrity of life," John Webster drew on his memory of the beginning of a poem in six Sapphic stanzas by poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace.
- Subjects
DUCHESS of Malfi, The (Play : Webster); COUPLETS; POETRY (Literary form); PROVERBS; TERMS &; phrases
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1988, Vol 35, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/35-1-63