 The closest connection is between "The Devil's Law Case" and "Lust's Dominion," though the manifold uncertainties of the latter play's date and authorship can provide no certain information about Webster's work.In "The Devil's Law Case," as in his "Appius and Virginia," "Webster reverses his anarchistic position" as displayed in "The White Devil" and "The Duchess of Malfi," "and asserts the priority of social order.