John Webster Quotes
Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.
Webster, John. The Duchess of Malfi. 1623. Act 5, sc. 2.
The chairman of the Public Works Committee doled out committee jobs in his home state. He was asked what these appointees did:
William the Conqueror. See Henry of Huntington for another similar description of the King's authority.
A large part of German propaganda was directed not only to Germans and the Axis, but one target was Englishmen and Americans. One objective was to try and cause strains in the amazingly strong British-American Alliance. In this cartoon Roosevelt—the large adult figure—is leading the small child, Churchill, by the hand. Many British were sensitive about this possibility.
Many of the prisoners in Iraq were accused of no crime but were picked up in security sweeps. In 2004 the brutal and illegal treatment of prisoners in Iraq became a national and worldwide scandal. Miller was never held responsible. See {70775}.
Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti
John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. His life and career overlapped Shakespeare's.
