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Excerpt from The White Devil and the Duchess of Malfy
IT is not known when Webster was born, when he died, or how he spent his life. Barring a few scant and unilluminating references, all that is known Of the man is gathered from the biographically impersonal pages Of the books he published; the only certain dates in his life are those on his title-pages, the dates Of printing. When his work was written, and when his plays were first acted, (an, in the main, only be inferred from internal evidence. With somewhat more assurance one may deduce his mental disposition from his writings, but the biographer has here no privileges unaccorded to the reader.
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