High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The White Devil is a revenge tragedy from 1612 by English playwright John Webster (1580–1634). A notorious failure when it premiered, Webster complained the play was acted in the dead of winter before an unreceptive audience. The play`s complexity, sophistication and satire made it a poor fit with the repertory of Queen Anne`s Men at the Red Bull Theatre, where it was first performed. It was successfully revived in 1630 by Queen Henrietta`s Men at the Cockpit Theatre and published again in 1631. In 1707 Nahum Tate published an adaptation of Webster`s play titled Injured Love.