The Duchess of Malfi (Brecht)
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The Duchess of Malfi is an adaptation by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of the English seventeenth-century tragedy of the same name by John Webster, about a 16th-century intrigue in Italy.[1] He collaborated with H. R. Hays and Anglo-American poet, W. H. Auden.[2] It was written during Brecht's period of exile in the United States.[2] It premiered in New York, in 1946.[3]
