Poem of the Day: ‘The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi’
John Webster was, as T.S. Eliot put it, one of the few authors who saw “the skull beneath the skin.’
Henry Weston Keen, 'Skull Crowned with Snakes and Flowers, The Duchess of Malfi,' detail, drawing, circa 1930. Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia Commons
