Author: John FordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
'Tis Pity she's a Whore, and The Broken Heart ... Edited by S. P. Sherman
Author: John Ford'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Author: John FordTis Pity She's A Whore and The Broken Heart
Author: John FordPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781010291725
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
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The Pity She's a Whore
Author: John FordIncest, Drama and Nature's Law, 1550-1700
Author: Richard A. McCabePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521088749
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This is a full-length study of incest in English Renaissance and Restoration drama. Richard McCabe's comprehensive survey offers a literary history of this theme, informed by an investigation of the intellectual background, with particular emphasis on changing concepts of natural law, and consequent reassessments of classical tradition. It examines a wide range of theological, philosophical, legal and literary sources, in the context of modern psychological and sociological theories of family development. Extensive comparisons with classical models and contemporary European dramatists, from Tasso to Corneille and Racine, explore the volatile association between dramatic form and emotional content, structural experiment and sexual ambivalence. The centrality of the family to all human relationships, and the mutual reflection of familial politics and the patriarchal state make incest a powerful metaphor for the ambivalence of all concepts of 'natural' authority, and for various forms of social and political revolt.
Tis Pity She's A Whore
Author: Lisa HopkinsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441176217
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
John Ford's tragedy 'Tis Pity She's A Whore was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed, if controversial, play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including TV and film adaptations. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research.
The Female Hero in English Renaissance Tragedy
Author: L. HopkinsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230503055
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book focuses on female tragic heroes in England from c.1610 to c.1645. Their sudden appearance can be linked to changing ideas about the relationships between bodies and souls; men's bodies and women's; marriage and mothering; the law; and religion. Though the vast majority of these characters are closer to villainesses than heroines, these plays, by showing how misogyny affected the lives of their central characters, did not merely reflect their culture, but also changed it.
The Broken Heart. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Author: John Ford'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Author: John FordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1141
Book Description
Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage
Author: Lisa HopkinsPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501514628
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy was in a sense the story of England, since the Trojan prince Aeneas was supposedly the ancestor of the Tudors. This book explores the wide range of allusions to Greece and Troy in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, looking not only at plays actually set in Greece or Troy but also those which draw on characters and motifs from Greek mythology and the Trojan War. Texts covered include Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and The Tempest as well as plays by other authors of the period including Marlowe, Chettle, Ford and Beaumont and Fletcher.