'Tis Pity She's A Whore

'Tis Pity She's A Whore PDF Author: John Ford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134944489
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
The last decade has seen a revival of interest in John Ford and especially 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, his tragedy of religious scepticism, incestuous love, and revenge. This text in particular has provided a focus for scholarship as well as being the subject of a number of major theatrical productions. Simon Barker guides the reader through the full range of previous interpretations of the play; moving from an overview of traditional readings he goes on to enlarge upon new questions that have arisen as a consequence of critical and cultural theory.

'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays

'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays PDF Author: John Ford
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192834492
Category : Incest
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Ford's tragedy, originally printed in 1633, was the first major English play to take as its theme fulfilled incest between brother and sister.

The Lover's Melancholy

The Lover's Melancholy PDF Author: John Ford
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719015335
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

'Tis Pity She's a Whore PDF Author: John Ford
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803252615
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
The central situation of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore is an incestuous love between brother and sister, and it is hardly surprising that critics have differed widely in their interpretation of the exact meaning and significance of the play. . . . All the love affairs in the play end in disaster . . . it would even be possible to read the play as a series of warnings against the destructive effects of passion."--N. W. Bawcutt

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy PDF Author: Emma Josephine Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521519373
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

'Tis Pity She's a Whore PDF Author: John Ford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140814431X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
Like Shakespeare's Juliet, Annabella, accompanied by her down-to-earth nurse, is introduced to a series of suitors to her hand. Like Juliet, she finds all of them unsatisfactory - and rightly so, for the audience know that the nastiest of them is having an affair with her domineering aunt. Like Juliet, Annabella is wooed by a sensitive and passionate young man whose love she returns - but this young man happens to be her own brother, Giovanni. When they consummate their love and she, to avoid the scandal of extramarital pregnancy, agrees to marry her aunt's lover, the tragic outcome is inevitable. John Ford, writing his psychologically powerful and intellectually challenging tragedies in the early years of King Charles I's reign, is a playwright of the first rank, as 20th-century directors have shown both in the theatre and on film.

Four Revenge Tragedies

Four Revenge Tragedies PDF Author: Thomas Kyd
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472573579
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 596

Book Description
Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique social and cultural milieu where dark fantasies of revenge are variously played out. In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy a grieving father seeks public justice for the murder of his son by envious princelings. When his attempts are thwarted he turns a court spectacle of murder into the 'real' thing. Blackly comic in its tone and style, The Revenger's Tragedy (anon.) presents vengeance as mimetic art, witty and cruel. Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore represents an innovative re-working of the genre as a brother's love for his sister leads to his spectacular revenge on his rival, her husband, in a society in which brutal retaliation for perceived wrong is the norm. In Webster's The White Devil crimes of passion ignite revenge in the courts of the Italian city states. This student edition contains fully annotated, modernized texts of each play together with an introduction discussing the dramatic and poetic style of each play, focusing on its action and play of ideas.
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