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’Tis Pity She’s a Whore: Extract from Act V - Scene VI.
 
 

’Tis Pity She’s a Whore by John Ford

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Author Biography

Name: John Sean O'Feeney Ford
Birth Date: February 1, 1895
Death Date: 1973
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: director, filmmaker

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Biography of John Sean O'Feeney Ford
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John Sean O'Feeney Ford (ca. 1895-1973) was an American film director who, with other pioneers in the movie industry, transformed a rudimentary entertainment medium into a highly personalized and expressive art form. John Sean O'Feeney Ford was born arou...


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’Tis Pity She’s a Whore Information
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'Tis Pity She's A Whore is a Caroline era tragedy written by John Ford. It was likely first performed between 1629 and 1633,[1] by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre. The play was first published in 1633, in a quarto printed by Nicholas Okes...


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Shakespeare Bulletin
'Tis Pity She's a Whore.(Theater Review)
09/22/2005: 1,071 words, approx. 4 pages
'Tis Pity She's a Whore Presented by the New Revels Players at the Gregory Hall Theatre, Urbana, Illinois. February 24-26, 2005. Directed by Alan Walworth. Designed by Liz Dampf. Sound by Sandra Mazuera. Fights by Ryan Maness. With Ped Naseri (Giovanni), Liz...
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TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE.(Review) (theater reviews)
11/01/1999: 876 words, approx. 3 pages
(DRAMA REVIVAL; YOUNG VIC THEATER; 350 SEATS; 18 [pounds sterling] ($30) TOP) LONDON A Young Vic Theater Co. presentation of the play by John Ford in two acts. Directed by David Lan. Sets, Richard Hudson: costumes, Gideon Davey; lighting, Adam Silverman; music,...
 


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Critical Essay by Mark Stavig
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In the essay below, Stavig contends that Ford wrote 'Tis Pity She's a Whore as a burlesque of the traditional morality play, intentionally adding absurd melodramatic and satiric elements to the play in an effort to minimize his audience's reaction to the theme of incest and the closing spectacle of violence.
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Susan J. Wiseman
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In the following essay, Wiseman discusses Ford's treatment of the incestuous body in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore as a context from which modern readers can examine seventeenth-century cultural attitudes towards sex, incest, and the human body.
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Critical Essay by Irving Ribner
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In the following essay, Ribner asserts that Ford's dramatization of the moral dilemma surrounding incest in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore reveals his larger preoccupation with humankind's universal conflict between natural and divine law.
 


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