Incomprehensible Concepts and Contexts: Teaching The Duchess of Malfi in Bhutan

Teaching a Jacobean British text such as The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster to the Bhutanese students was real challenge deals with world class and gender hierarchy. Living in Buddhist country, where even killing animals for food is prohibited Gross National Happiness prioritized, psychological trauma violent gory events portrayed play appalled students. could not imagine female subjugation, gory, bloodshed. Therefore, teacher takes caste community-based honor contemporary examples from their neighboring India, explicate Duchess. Thus, they understand culturally different via India.