In 1850, he was convicted of murder in the Parkman–Webster murder case and hanged.
He was buried April 1661 in Hadley, Massachusetts in The Old Hadley Cemetery. His mother then moved herself, him, his two older sisters, and a younger brother in with an aunt and grandmother. John was born in March of 1945 in the Los Angeles area. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.
The future playwright, believed to be the eldest son because he bears his father’s name, was most likely born within the years 1577-1580. It was only in the late twentieth century, when Jacobean tragedy was rediscovered by scholars and theater artists, that Webster began to be fully appreciated for his powerful writing. Born: He is married to Alyssa Webster. History at your fingertips
These included a tragedy Despite his ability to write comedy, Webster is best known for his two brooding English tragedies based on Italian sources. John Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.
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His father, a carriage maker also named John Webster, married a blacksmith's daughter named Elizabeth Coates on 4 November 1577 and it is likely that Webster was born not long after in or near London. His father, also John Webster, a coach maker, married a blacksmith’s daughter named Elizabeth Coates. He began his musical career as a child, trained in classical piano until his early teens, and then moved on to playing in rock bands. He was a painstaking literary craftsman, much concerned with the philosophy and the psychology of evil.
John White Webster (May 20, 1793 – August 30, 1850) was an American professor of chemistry and geology at Harvard Medical College.
One of his first bands, Stonebolt, landed a top 30 U.S. hit with its first release in 1978 and went on to record four successful albums.
The head of this family, also named John, was a member of the Merchant Taylors’ Company; this information accords with a statement written by the playwright, which mentions that he had been “born free” of the Merchant Taylors’, meaning that at the time of his birth his father was an actual member of that guild.
His father was a radio repairman; his mother a fanatically religious house wife who aspired to be an English teacher. He is the father of Allie, Lexi, and Zoey Webster, and is currently expecting his fourth child.
John Bainbridge Webster FRSE was an English Anglican priest and theologian writing in the area of systematic, historical, and moral theology.
Nothing definite is known of John Webster's birth or parentage.
John Webster Governor of the Colony of Connecticut In office 1656–1657 Preceded byThomas Welles Succeeded byJohn Winthrop Jr. Deputy Governor of the Colony of Connecticut In office 1655–1655 Preceded byThomas Welles Succeeded byThomas Welles Personal details Bornbef. They lived in St. Sepulchre’s parish. He has been tentatively identified as the son of a merchant-tailor of London, and it is thought he was born about 1580; but no solid evidence on either of these points exists.
Even more than Webster's drama was generally dismissed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but many twentieth century critics and theatregoers have found † = Not published in the Beaumont and Fletcher folios"John Webster also attended the school, though probably after Mulcaster's retirement in 1586", Julia Briggs, No records prove that the young Webster went to the famous Merchant Taylors’ School, but such an assumption is reasonable.
Webster has received a reputation for being the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatist with the most unsparingly dark vision of human nature. His life and career overlapped William Shakespeare’s.
He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare. His father John and his Uncle Edward were Freemen of the Most of what is otherwise known of him relates to his theatrical activities. His most famous work,