John Ford 'Tis Pity She?s a Whore John Ford 9781785433528 Books
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John Ford is another of England’s famed literary masters. A Playwright and Poet, he was the most important writer of Tragedies during the reign of King Charles I (1625–49). His works are beautifully poetic even whilst tackling subjects from incest to the choice between true love or forced marriage. Ford’s work has endured down the centuries although little is known of his life, or, in some cases, even his contributions to his own plays when written with others. As a whole though it is a legacy of classics; powerful persuasions from driven characters and compelling narratives.
John Ford 'Tis Pity She?s a Whore John Ford 9781785433528 Books
There is a wonderful academic aura about this book that really helps the reader to understand the extremes of what appears to be a normal world.Fun. Sexy. Vulgar. Ugly. At its core it is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet in a society that a purity of love can only be found
in the incestuous relationship of a brother and sister.
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Incest and dirty double hearted deeds that led all to this tragedy!
In cattle and horses siblings are breed that good genes double and bad ones die out.
In humans it engenders a madness of the superego
that leads to downfall and disgrace for all.
" Get thee to a nunnery " is the other side of "Tis Pity She's A Whore".
There is no wrong save "they" said it were so.
For men are but animals and their empty morals
all useless inventions?
We would better in these latter days trust
to DNA science than outmoded conventions.
I was reluctant to pick up this book because of the title, but I decided to read it because it was around. I was mildly entertained and finished the book very quickly due to the short length. It is a tragedy in which almost all are killed in the end. I did not care much for the plot, which involves an incestuous relationship between brother and sister. After reading the beginning, it was rather easy to predict the ending. It is not tremendously detailed or emotional. I'm not sure if this is a title that would often come up in conversations between friends or colleagues, but avid readers might want to pick up the title to have read it.
This is a highly emotional and well-written work that explores a very taboo subject matter. The play revolves a case of forbidden love, in this case, Giovanni's incestuous love for his sister Annabella. It's pretty easy to figure out after the first few pages that the play will have a tragic ending, but there are several major surprises that happen along the way, and the final scene is unbelievably violent. I'd love the chance to stage a production of "Tis Pity" one of these days...from a directorial standpoint, the script is filled with many interesting possibilities.
Had there been no Shakespeare, John Ford's play "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" would never have been written--but Shakespeare's tremendous example not only provided part of context of this play, but also obscures it. "'Tis Pity" is not as good as Shakespeare's very best works (the great tragedies and romances). Ford struggles to match Shakespeare's second-best works (e.g., the great comedies such as "As You Like It").
But judging Ford in comparison with Shakespeare is unfair. Perhaps a few score of writers really match Shakespeare Homer, Sappho, Ovid, Virgil, perhaps Dante. I wouldn't give Shakespeare a five-star rating and give, say, Pope, Keats, or Austen a four-star rating. Nor would I give Ford a three-star rating next to Shakespeare's five-star and Keats' and Austen's four-star ratings.
In the bell curve of literature, Shakespeare and Homer (in my opinion) occupy the vanishingly small right side of the curve. Very few writers match Ford's achievement in "'Tis Pity." The play is powerful, cleanly plotted, and brilliantly written. In particular, Ford does a great job in creating sympathy for all of his major characters, and in particular for the incestuous lovers at the heart of the play. The play suffers only by comparison with Shakespeare and perhaps a handful of other great dramatists.
More important, the New Mermaids edition is very useful. The introduction is thoughtful and thorough; the page layout is clear (especially important with drama); and the footnotes are generally useful. The editor, Wiggins, sometimes elucidates matters that are perfectly clear--but I would rather the editor take that approach than leave me in the dark.
In short, serious students of literature will want to read this play, and the New Mermaids edition provides a well-annotated text using modern English spelling.
The book came right on time and the pages smell like sweet oranges. I've opened a book that smelled like this. Were the pages made with orange pulp? Would buy for my girlfriend if this came as a fragrance.
Update There were a number of typographical errors, no line numbers, no foot-notes, no introduction what so ever, and no dramatis personae page. The formatting was strange in several places and there were numbers which I suspect belonged to hyperlinks from some online PDF version of the book, which the publisher forgot to delete in certain places, and that was mildly annoying (especially since I'd like to have seen the footnotes that went with the links). I was a bit disappointed. This isn't really useful if you want to use this for performance or if do a scholarly reading either, since there are no line numbers to refer to. I wish there had been some sort of commentary, but I guess if you just want the bear bones text, this is for you... but I'm pretty sure you could find a better rendering of this text online somewhere that actually gives you some context (like whatever PDF the text was ripped off from). Also, the orange scent faded.
Barely okay. Not a good edition.
About as dark of a play as you could find in Elizabethan theater, a twist of a romance focusing on incestuous siblings.
There is a wonderful academic aura about this book that really helps the reader to understand the extremes of what appears to be a normal world.
Fun. Sexy. Vulgar. Ugly. At its core it is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet in a society that a purity of love can only be found
in the incestuous relationship of a brother and sister.
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