Find Tis Pity Shes A Whore, 1633 Presented By John Ford Distributed As Interactive EBook
dolce Annabella, se dovessi rifare qui la storia della mia vita, perderemmo solo del tempo, Ma siano testimoni gli spiriti dell'aria e ogni altra cosa al mondo, che di giorno e di notte, all'aurora e al tramonto, il tributo che questo mio cuore ha pagato al sacro amore di Annabella sono state queste lacrime, che sono ora le sue accompagnatrici funebri.
Mai fino ad ora la Natura aveva espresso il meglio di se stessa per mostrare nel mondo una bellezza senza uguali, che in un istante, appena il destino geloso l'ebbe vista, subito la rivolle indietro.
Prega, Annabella, prega! Giacché dobbiamo separarci, vai tu, con la tua anima pura, ad occupare in paradiso un trono di santità e d'innocenza",
Studiato approfonditamente per un esame, ma decisamente lontano da ciò che mi piace e mi appassiona leggere,
Ford è stato senza dubbio un autore coraggioso e gigante per il suo tempo, l'ultimo grande rappresentante del periodo d'oro del teatro inglese, ma le sue trame e i temi trattati non incontrano molto il mio gusto di lettrice.
Definitely a.star
Characters:
, Fraile: Tutor de Giovanni, escandalizado al saber que este está enamorado de su hermana
, Giovanni: Universitario enamorado de su hermana Anabella a la cual termina asesinando al igual que a Soranzo
, Grimaldi: Soldado en duelo con Vásquez, pariente del duque Montferrato, planea matar a Soranzo con la ayuda del “doctor” Richardetto
, Vásquez: Criado de Soranzo en duelo con Grimaldi
, Florio: padre de Giovanni y Anabella, muere de un disgusto,
. Donado: Rico magistrado, tío de Bergetto
, Soranzo: Noble rico. Rival en amores de Grimaldi, ambos pretenden a Annabella,
. Putana: Criada y cómplice de Anabella
, Annabella: hija de Florio, enamorada de su hermano Giovanni
, Hipólita: Viuda, enemiga de Soranzo porque este le prometió casarse con ella a la muerte de su marido y ahora lo odia, Termina muriendo traicionada por Vásquez,
. Bergetto: Niño rico castroso, sobrino de Sigmor Donado, Enamorado de Filotis, termina muriendo porque Grimaldi lo confundió con Soranzo,
. Poggio: criado de Bergetto
, Richardetto: “Doctor” esposo de Hipólita que fingió su muerte, Planea la muerte de Soranzo junto a Grimaldi
, Filotis: sobrina de Richardetto, es una música, Termina en un convento. The wildest Romeo and Juliet fanfiction youll ever read, complete with nurse, friar, and starcrossed loverswho just happen to be brother and sister, Its a play without a moral center, with no one to root for and no one to love, just bitter, deluded, vengeful men circling around a woman neither virtuous nor fallen, pitiable nor admirable.
A strange confusion of a play, but well worth any Romeo and Juliet fans time, This was one of those books I had to read for class and I went in totally blind, Its like Romeo and Juliet but with incest, I have such mixed feelings about this play, . . I need to see it live to see if my hatred for Giovanni is justified and if some of the decisions feel as forced, 'Twas great! This play is disturbing but it is very interesting, Nevertheless, it was a great read Disturbing, memorable, Think of a "grade B" horror film crossed with Shakespeare, and directed by David Cronenberg, Dommage que je lai bien aimé sinon jaurais dit tis pity hes a bore,
Traduction JeanMichel Déprats, L'amour incestueux de Giovanni pour sa soeur Annabella dans la Parme de la Renaissance choque profondément la famille d'en face, les Soranzo, et tous ceux qui sont soumis à la loi implacable de Dieu.
Le tuteur de Giovanni est torturé entre sa foi et la philosophie libérale qu'il enseigne à son élève, john ford i would like to study you in my lab
subpar given the amount of energy i had to exert to understand it, Five, because rarely does a classic manage to shock a modern reader familiar with the likes of Game of Thrones, Conversely, one has to wonder whether Ford influenced George RR Martin at all, because this play has many of the same elements that make GoT so shockingly twisted: sibling incest, gratuitous murder at weddings and birthday feasts, even!, and Machiavellian characters Vasques is an unsung Lord Baelish, Soranzo could put Robert Baratheon to shame, and Putana reminded me strongly of Grand Maester Pycelle.
The plot feels a little exaggerated at times, maybe even a little cartoonish, but the play is saved from an overall impression of clumsiness by the incredibly wellwritten characters of the two incestous siblings, Giovanni and Annabella.
Giovanni could be the love child of Cersei Lannister and Rodion Raskolnikov, twisted, murderous and brilliant as he is, Meanwhile Annabella plays an ingénue in front of the whole world, but when faced with someone she dislikes, like Soranzo or Bergetto, she is capable of acidic wit, even to the point of cruelty she is both Madonna and whore, and reminded me a little of Helen of Troy, damned by her beauty and plagued by halfregrets.
As opposed to Giovanni, there is actual goodness in Annabella: in the end, she is one of the few redeemable characters of the play, which is ironic considering she was the trigger for the storm of murder that swept Parma.
From BBC RadioDrama on:
Compassionate and disturbing, John Ford's great story of doomed love between a brother and sister in this new, visceral production for radio, intercut with the music of Jimi Hendrix and Nick Cave.
Annabella . . Jessie Buckley,
Giovanni . . Damien Molony
Signor Florio, . Niall Buggy,
Putana . . Fenella Woolgar,
Friar Bonaventura, . Oliver Cotton.
Lord Soranzo . . Matthew Pidgeon,
Vasques Enzo Cilenti,
Hippolita . . Indira Varma.
Grimaldi . . Gary Duncan,
Cardinal . . Neil McCaul,
Officer . . Adam Fitzgerald
Dorando . . Tayla KovacevicEbong.
The original song In Deep composed by Jules Maxwell, and sung by Jessie Buckley, Indira Varma, and Abby Andrews
Introduction by Professor Emma Smith from Hertford College, Oxford.
Adapted and directed by Pauline Harris,
Further info:
Jessie Buckley in her first radio appearance as Annabella, Credits include War and Peace for BBC One, The Last Post BBC One and Taboo,
She played Anne Egermann in the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, Buckley played the part of Emily Strong in Rosamunde Pilcher's fourpart TV adaptation of her book Shades of Love,
She appeared opposite Jude Law in Michael Grandage's West End production of Henry V at the Noël Coward Theatre, and played Perdita in the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's production of The Winter's Tale.
sitelink bbc. co. uk/programmes/blsqs Wish the cohen brothers would do a movie of this play! Its kind of tough to know what to say or think about this one.
Its a play from about, closely related to the genre of Jacobean revenge plays, which are notorious for trying to get the audiences attention by shocking them, Sure enough, we open ActScenewith a clever young man, just back from a foreign university, strolling down the street with a friar and casually talking about how much he wants to have sex with his sister.
No no no, thats wrong, says the friar, and the young man then launches into a flowery sophistical digression justifying himself, They argue. God will punish sin, says the friar, and dont you pull that atheist crap on me, cause youre not at university any more and you cant get away with that kind of egghead stuff round here.
The young man halfheartedly vows to try praying, repenting and fighting his lusts, Will it work, or will he be Swept Away by a Forbidden Love
Ill try to limit the spoilers for now, but I dont feel too bad disclosing that things keep getting more transgressive from there, almost as if thats the authors conscious objective.
After all, if the audience is there to be shocked, then each successive act has to have something to keep them that way, By the end of the play we have multiple dead bodies bloody and otherwise scattered about the stage, and someone is running around babbling insanely while brandishing a heart impaled on a dagger.
Also, hes swordfighting. Its unclear whether he puts down the dagger with the heart on it before taking up swordplay,
Described thus, it sounds almost as silly as The Couriers Tragedy, the absurd fictional parody of Jacobean revenge plays described in Thomas Pynchons The Crying of Lot.
And one can almost understand why the Puritans of the time periodically closed down the theaters in fits of moralistic contempt,
And yet theres more here, The obvious, casual misogyny of the title has a double edge to it, Again, no spoilers yet, but when the line occurs in the play, its a brutally, casually dismissive statement by a character who plainly has no idea what hes talking about and doesnt care.
Lots of people die in this play, but I find myself particularly thinking about the women, Why should we pay more attention to them Well, to my mind, the title is a preemptive slap in the face of the reader/audience, saying in essence “notice this!” Notice the way the women are treated.
Okay, lets notice.
End of nospoiler pledge, by the way, Stop reading if such things matter to you,
There are four female characters, One is a frankly amoral old woman who gives really bad personalrelationship advice one is a wife who has been seduced and betrayed by a lover, two are unmarried virgins.
One of the latter is no longer a virgin by the end of act one, Of these four, three die in various moreorless horrible ways, Can you guess which three
Bingo! Its the old sexequalsdeath trope, familiar to us from such classic works of literature as Halloween and Friday theth.
But which one does the title refer to The author dangles the anticipated titledrop until the very end, seeming inviting us to guess who it refers to.
Whos the “whore” What do we mean by “whore”, anyway
Putana, whose name literally means “whore”, is a stunningly bad chaperone for a young woman, When leaving Annabel and her brother Giovanni to talk privately in the first act, she mutters in a snide aside to the audience that if he were anybody else, shed take a cut of Annabels fee.
It turns out shes not actually joking, Shortly afterward she knowingly colludes in enabling brothersister incest, saying almost literally, “if it feels good do it, ” Act, Scene: “If a young wench feel the fit upon her, let her take anybody, father or brother, all is one, ” This is like the compliasant Nurse of Romeo and Juliet turned up to, Its like she wants her goodgirl charge to be corrupted, and enjoys watching it happen, Shes the unfiltered voice of the id, of biological urges that totally ignore reason and custom, What ever possessed Annabels father to hire this creature If not the “whore” of the title, shes certainly far from being a good guide or “tutoress” for anybody, and her “joking” comments about payment suggest that shes not above prostituting the female body, even the body of someone whose virtue and reputation shes supposed to protect.
And Annabel. The golden girl, the muchdesired ingenue sought after by literally all of the eligible bachelors in town, Shes totally unimpressed with all of them, and understandably so, Theyre an unimpressive lot: a secondrate bungler who never gets anything right a blithering idiot whos literally too stupid to live and an arrogantly amoral, hypocritical ass who has already seduced, abandoned, and publicly betrayed at least one married woman.
Putana helpfully tells her this, then suggests that she marry the seducer because hes a Real Man who knows how to Handle a Woman, Ugh. No wonder her glib brother, freshly back from university and spouting all kinds of finesounding words, seems more attractive, Perhaps she should have noticed that hes a bit too good at persuading himself with those finesounding words, and talking himself into all sorts of ideas and actions that boring conventional thinkers would recoil from.
And, yeah, theres that whole brothersister thing, But Putana says its okay! Annabel doesnt initiate her own disaster, though she does participate willingly once its proposed to her, But however foolish and misguided she may be at this stage, the play makes it clear that shes motivated by actual affection for Giovanni, not by the prospect of cynically trading sex for money or social advancement or anything else that a literal prostitute would take in payment for services.
In fact, Annabel and Giovanni are the only couple in the play who act like genuine lovers, who actually seem to like each other and be happy with each other.
We can even speculate that if the two of them were to abscond to some distant town under fake identities, they might actually live together quite happily, But this is not the case, Giovanni is too entranced by his delusional dreams of lovers utopia to see the realworld disaster looming ahead of them, much less to take any action to avoid it.
Annabel sees the disaster all too clearly when she gets pregnant, This is of course a reality check which inevitably hits women much harder than it hits men, And this is arguably the point at which she realizes that however much she loves him, Giovannis finelyworded flights of fancy primarily serve to amuse him, and will not save her from disaster.
Shes the one who has to deal with the realworld consequences of their actions, while he continues to live in a fantasy world that becomes increasingly detached from the plays grim reality.
Far from benefiting from trading sex for worldly gain, Annabels been lured into disaster by sincere, if foolish, affection,
Hippolyta was once a good girl, too, A formerly chaste wife, shes been seduced, abandoned and publicly disgraced by a lover who pursued her relentlessly, then casually ditched her once he got what he wanted.
But shes no passive creature to be acted on by men and then ignored, Shes furious, and shes trying every scheme she can think of to get revenge on the traitorous sonofabitch, This does not work out well, as she is once more betrayed by a man she unwisely trusts, You can hardly blame her for spitting with rage while she dies, She let herself be seduced, gained nothing but perhaps momentary pleasure from the experience, and bitterly regretted it, Does this make her a “whore”
And what about Philotis, the one female character who survives the play She is a “good girl”, a virgin who remains such, but not really by choice or principle.
Its just that shes so docile and passive and obedient to her uncle that she seems to have literally no agency, no wishes or desires or passions of her own, good or bad.
When told by her uncle to marry a blithering twit on a moments notice, she obediently glides off to do so, no questions asked, even when the uncle crudely pushes the marriage in words that sound very much like a pimp.
III. v: “when we have done whats fit to do, then you may kiss your fill, and bed her too, ”. When that goes horribly wrong, she doesnt seem too upset about it, she just continues doing what her uncle says, and trots off to join a convent, You could make a case that the marriage her uncle proposes is much like prostitution, a bluntly described trade of sex for social position with no hint of personal affection whatsoever.
It fails to happen not because she prefers anything different, but through blind chance when the hapless groom is mistakenly slaughtered by a bungling assassin, Philotis the passive good girl turns out to be basically a femaleshaped figure with not much more agency than a blowup doll, Of course, seeing what sex leads to in the twisted world of this play, who can really blame her for being glad to say Goodbye to All That IV.
ii: “Farewell, world, and worldly thoughts, adieu! Welcome, chaste vows I yield myself to you, ” And she ends up being the Final Girl, although not by choice, Shes so boring it hardly seems to matter,
So. Which is the “whore” Anybody whos read this far has probably already read the play as well, and we know that as the Cardinal in the final scene is opportunistically giving orders for everybodys fortunes to be confiscated and handed over to the Church, his offhand derisive comment is directed at Annabel, of whom he has only the most desultory knowledge.
The plays bitter irony is that of all the four female characters, shes the only one whos had a sexual relationship based on honest, genuine affection and mutual desire, not on deception or the prospect of trading sex for gain.
Putana really does live down to her name in attitude, if not in deed Hippolyta betrayed her spouse Philotis, while technically a virgin and even a nun at the end, didnt particularly seek out that outcome, she just passively let herself be led by her uncle wherever he told her to go, including the prospect of being wedded and bedded for the sake of a socially useful connection to a rich father in law, and drifted into the convent more or less by accident when that didnt work out.
But because Annabels sincerely affectionate sexuality has gotten her “in trouble” with a socially unacceptable mate, shes slapped with the dismissive, insulting label of “whore”, One cant help but wonder whether the authors provocative title is intended to question that label, and the ludicrously inapt set of values and judgements that lie behind it, almost as much as it is intended to grab the audiences attention with prurient interest.
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