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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.
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Continuum Renaissance Drama Series editors: Andrew Hiscock, University of Wales Bangor, UK and Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Continuum Renaissance Drama offers practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the text's critical and performance history but also provides students with an invaluable insight into the landscape of current scholarly research through a keynote essay on the state of the art and newly commissioned essays of fresh research from different critical perspectives. Current titles: Doctor Faustus, ed. Sara Munson Deats A Midsummer Night's Dream, ed. Regina Buccola Forthcoming titles: 1 Henry IV, ed. Stephen Longstaffe The Duchess of Malfi, ed. Christina Luckyj King Lear, ed. Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins Volpone, ed. Matthew Steggle Women Beware Women, ed. Andrew Hiscock
'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE A Critical Guide Edited by Lisa Hopkins
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Contents
Series Introduction
vii
Timeline
ix
Introduction Lisa Hopkins
Chapter 1 The Critical Backstory
1
14
Lisa
Chapter 2 The Performance History
34
Kate Wilkinson
Chapter 3 The State of the Art
60
Sandra Clark
Chapter 4 New Directions: Fatal Attraction: Desire,
77
Anatomy and Death in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Catherine Silverstone
Chapter 5 New Directions: Identifying the Real Whore
94
of Parma Corinne S. Abate
Chapter 6 New Directions: The Confessional Identities
114
of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Gillian Woods
Chapter 7 New Directions: The Deconstructing 'Tis Pity?: Derrida, Barthes and Ford Mark Houlahan
136
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Chapter 8 New Directions: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and
152
the Space of the Stage Lisa Hopkins
Chapter 9 A Survey of Resources
168
Rhonda Lemke Sanford Bibliography
181
Notes on Contributors
186
Index
189
Series Introduction
The drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has remained at