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.Werner Hecht (1998) Brecht Chronik 1998–1956, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. He collaborated with H. R. Hays and Anglo-American poet, W. H. Auden. It was written during Brecht's period of exile in the United States. It premiered in New York, in 1946.
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