In 1683, eleven years before the Salem Witch Trials, Mary Webster, wife to William Webster son of the former governor of Connecticut and a founder of the very town of Hadley John Webster, was accused and acquitted of witchcraft.
The song "My White Devil" from Echo & the Bunnymen's 1983 album Porcupine refers to Webster as "one of the best there was" and mentions his two tragic plays by name.
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The 1982 detective novel The Skull Beneath the Skin by P. D. James centres around an ageing actress who plans to play Webster's drama The Duchess of Malfi in a Victorian castle theatre.
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In 1635 John Webster, curate at Kildwick, was before a church court charged with being a Grindletonian.
Her story formed the basis of John Webster's drama, The White Devil, or The Tragedy of Paolo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano (1612), of Stendhal's novella Vittoria Accoramboni (1837-1839), of Ludwig Tieck's novel, Vittoria Accoramboni (1840) and of Robert Merle's novel l'Idole (1987) published in English translation as Vittoria.
Jonathan Wade-Drahos is an American film and television actor who is most famous for his lead role as John Webster in Dirk Shafer's 2001 film Circuit.
He also appears as a character in John Webster's Jacobean revenge drama The White Devil (1612).