'Tis Pity She's A Whore / Edition 2

by John Ford, Martin Wiggins

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780713650600
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/21/2008
Series:	New Mermaids
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.95(w) x 7.89(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Martin Wiggins is a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.

Editorial Reviews

<:st> New edition, with commentary & bibliography, of the chief Ford play. Cited in . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

...well up to the gold standard set by the Arden Shakespeare” —Nicholas Robins, Times Literary Supplement

“In a world dominated by men and religion, [Annabella's] body is something over which men barter, and Giovanni's passion is only sated by absolute possessionof his sister's heart.” —Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 28.9.10

“Rich in its setting up of a historical context for the plot, its analysis of Ford's source material, and its lucid explication of the play's textual and bibliographic history... It is in its commentary that I think this edition shines brightest... I recommend this edition for any student of the play, and know that Sonia Massai has created a new benchmark for future editors of 'Tis Pity.” —The Shakespeare Bookshop Newsletter

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