If Webster was part of a dying culture, he was also-and it is this that Webster criticism has almost consistently ignored-a member of the generation that prepared the way for the revolution of 1640” (Introduction). As such, the critical energy we find in the plays was sustained, not by ideological certainty, but rather by interaction with the great complexity of thought and action-much of it negative-that constitutes a pre-revolutionary movement. “Webster’s iconoclasm was not the lonely experience of an alienated intellectual, but part of his generation’s struggle to create the future.
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