A Werewolf Fragment

1 1/2"x 2 1/8"
21 pages

"One met the Duke 'bout midnight in the lane behind Saint Mark's church, with the leg of a man upon his shoulder..."

There aren't many Elizabethan/Jacobean plays with a werewolf in them, but John Webster's Duchess of Malfi has one, and he's....memorable.
 
This tiny, dollhouse-sized book contains the short descriptive speech of a horrified bystander from Act V, scene ii.The book is illustrated with the skulls of men and wolves. And the detached leg business is not the most gruesome thing the the play, or even in the act. Strange, beautiful, haunting, and grotesque.

The book is bound black paper, with decorative endpapers and a paper title pasted on the front.

This product was added to our catalog  October 24, 2009