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John Webster

1578 - 1634

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John Webster (c. 1578 – c. 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Webster has received more than 788,841 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). John Webster is the 2,815th most popular writer (down from 2,394th in 2019), the 2,089th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,837th in 2019) and the 233rd most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 790k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The White Devil
1958
Plays
Drama, English drama, Revenge
1830
The Duchess of Malfi
1953
The Best Elizabethan Plays
Accessible book, English drama, Early modern and Elizabethan
1890
The devil's law-case
1972

Page views of John Websters by language

Over the past year John Webster has had the most page views in the with 91,585 views, followed by Spanish (5,602), and Italian (5,106). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Cornish (106.05%), Ukrainian (61.42%), and Armenian (56.09%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Webster ranks 2,815 out of 7,302. Before him are Gunnar Staalesen, George Herbert, Branko Radičević, Luis Cernuda, Theodore Balsamon, and Abraham Sutzkever. After him are Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Aleksandar Tišma, Panteleimon Kulish, Benjamin Fondane, Juan Marsé, and Vilhelm Moberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1578, John Webster ranks 13. Before him are Fede Galizia, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, Agostino Tassi, Benedetto Castelli, and Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari. After him is Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau. Among people deceased in 1634, John Webster ranks 10. Before him are Adriano Banchieri, Maria Celeste, Urbain Grandier, John Albert Vasa, Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Magdalene of Nagasaki. After him are António de Andrade, Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst, Johann von Aldringen, Johann Carolus, Edward Coke, and Taranatha.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Webster ranks 2,089 out of 8,785. Before him are Chris Menges (1940), Thomas Andrews (1813), Robert Fortune (1812), Anthony Dawson (1916), Alan Lancaster (1949), and George Herbert (1593). After him are James Fox (1939), John Foxe (1516), Andrew Ridgeley (1963), Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (1499), Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912), and John Baskerville (1706).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Webster ranks 233. Before him are Samuel Smiles (1812), Robert Holdstock (1948), Josephine Tey (1896), Marion Chesney (1936), James Herriot (1916), and George Herbert (1593). After him are Joseph Delaney (1945), Irvine Welsh (1957), Anthony Horowitz (1955), Michael Bond (1926), John Fletcher (1579), and Walter Pater (1839).

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