Keywords— Malfi, Tragic Action, Death, Mimesis, Tragic Closure, Duchess, Funeral I. INTRODUCTION We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us Even in the heyday of New Criticism, The Duchess of Malfi occasioned historical analysis. In, for instance, Clifford Leech pronounced the Duchess a warning to the rash and wanton of the dangers inher-ent in taking a second husband. significance of the Duchess's death is hardly comprehensible outside the context created by the fi